Burglary - The effects of the hazzard.

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Burglary

The effects of the hazzard

There are many effects that happen because of this hazzard, some being material and some being psychological. One of the main and most obvious effect is theft form property. This is an effect as items that may have been stolen in the burlary need to be replaced, costing the victims money. Also costing the victims money is damages. These don't always occur, but if they do they cost a ocnsiderable amount of money to fix. These damages may be caused by the actual breaking in of the property, or during th burglary.

Psycological effects are common after burglaries with 1 in 4 people having sleepless nights and 1 in 10 suffering from depression. This may happen as victims feel an invasion of privacy. Also people may fear that they will get burgaled again.

The sources you would investigate to discover the frequency of occurence of the hazzard and the reliability of these things

There are many sources at which we can look at to discover the frequency of the ocuurence of the hazzard, each having its own scale of reliabilty. One of the main sources of information is police reports, which may be believed to be quite reliable. However this isn't entirely true as not all crime is reported to the police, for various reasons. One, the loss from the burglary may be too little and it isn't worth reporting it. Two, people have a lack of confidence in the police, so they feel nothing would get done about their claim. Three, People feel good enough to take matters of the law into their own hands and try and find the burglar themselve. Four, there may be fear of retaliation from the burglar, as they may have been threatened. And five, people may have a no claims bonus, and do not wish to break this. Howver there is a new method of crime recording, The national Crime Recording Standard. With this new method, police have to record all crimes, even if no evidence is present.

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Another source in which information can be found is from insurance companies. Even though this source seems to be more reliable than the police reports, it still has its disadvantages. One of the disadvantages which it holds is lying from a customer. Customers may lie the amount of items that were stolen from their home and try to collect more money from the insurance company. However not all people are able to afford insurance for many reasons. One being the location of where they live. People in the inner city are less likely to hold insurence as it is unaffordable, ...

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