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DOCTORATE OF BURGLAROLOGY


SORRY ALL, I COULDN'T HELP MYSELF, RAB.


Burglars found to be as skilled as pilots

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Bur­glars are so good at rob­bing hous­es, they can be con­si­dered ex­perts in their field on a pa­r with pi­lots, new re­search con­cludes.

Psy­chol­o­gists Claire Nee and Amy Meenaghan of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ports­mouth, U.K. found that bur­glars speed and ef­fi­cien­cy puts them on a lev­el with oth­ers who per­form com­pli­cat­ed tasks au­to­mat­i­cal­ly, such as mu­si­cians, chess play­ers and pi­lots.

A man tries to pry open a gar­age door. (Cour­te­sy City of Pa­cif­ic Grove, Penn.)
The con­clu­sions were based on in-depth in­ter­views with 50 se­ri­al bur­g­lars on how they car­ry out break-ins, Nee and Mee­na­g­han said. 

These talks, they ad­ded, re­vealed that get­ting in­to a home and steal­ing valu­a­bles, while si­mul­ta­ne­ous­ly mo­ni­tor­ing noise, is a clas­sic ex­am­ple of ex­per­tise.

Bur­glars are ex­pert de­ci­sion­ma­kers. Based on a com­bi­na­tion of cueswealth, lay­out, oc­cu­pan­cy or se­cu­ri­tythey de­cide which prop­er­ty to en­ter, Nee re­marked.

Bur­glars be­come ex­pe­ri­enced at get­ting around a prop­er­ty very quick­ly with min­i­mum risk and max­i­mum gain. They nav­i­gate around the prop­er­ty us­ing a fixed search pat­tern or men­tal map to make sure they get all the desira­ble goods in the least amount of time.


The re­search, pub­lished in the Sep­tem­ber is­sue of the Brit­ish Jour­nal of Crim­i­nol­o­gy, found that:
  • Se­cu­rity alarms dont de­ter a bur­glar in­tent on steal­ing from a prop­er­ty.

  • Bur­glars pre­fer res­i­dents to be at home asleep, as this en­sures valu­a­bles such as wal­lets, hand­bags and jew­el­lery are in the house.

  • The av­er­age time for a bur­glar to be in a prop­er­ty was 20 min­utes, dur­ing which they net­ted goods worth £800 ($1,500).

  • Most bur­glars said they did­nt plan the break-in in ad­vance. Rather, they head­ed for an af­flu­ent ar­e­a when they needed cash, then choose their prop­er­ty.

  • Two-thirds knocked on the front door to check wheth­er an­y­one was home be­fore en­ter­ing, and locked the door once in­side.

  • Two-thirds pre­ferred to work alone so they would­nt have to split prof­its or risk pa­rtners iden­ti­fy­ing them to po­lice.

Nee al­so found the ma­jor­i­ty of bur­glars had a set route once in­side the house. They started in the mas­ter bed­room and scoured oth­er bed­rooms be­fore head­ing for the liv­ing room, din­ing room and stu­dy. In­trud­ers didnt en­ter chil­drens rooms, as these rare­ly con­tained valu­a­bles, and on­ly went in­to kitch­ens if they had time.

The con­victed bur­glars said they were main­ly look­ing for cred­it cards, mon­ey or jew­el­ler­y, ac­cord­ing to the re­search­ers. The law­break­ers took te­le­vi­sions, CD and DVD play­ers and oth­er elec­tri­cal goods as a bo­nus on their way out. Over­all, the information should help po­lice and house­hold­ers pre­vent do­mes­tic bur­glaries, the psy­chol­o­gists said. 



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