Wednesday 7 November 2012

Financially successful burglars


       One major feature professional burglars have is integrity or ambition. Successful burglars surround us and although it seems that the majority are amateurs.Professional burglars are sneaks and less commonly caught so we don’t even realise it has been don’t or it’s too late to catch them.

      Criminals may prey on commercial property rather than private homes because the consequences are less severe. The criminal will be served less time in prison if they break into a commercial property the reason for the less sever consequence is that the burglar is not invading someone’s home. Home is where they are supposed to be safe and unwelcome strangers in a home is more frightening then burglary of a business. The steps for burglarys in commercial property is:

·         scoping out business before hand
·         planning
·         collecting inside information
·         lots of time put into the burglary
·         finding what you want

         Some burglars will strike the same place multiple times because there may be weak spots that the burglar knows of from previous experiences. The most common methods for burglars are breaking windows, kicking in doors or opening unlocked doors. They will most likely avoid homes with guard dogs and alarm systems due to the higher risk of being caught.

Where do burglars learn their tricks from you may ask?
Well there are a number of sources. They learn from more experienced burglars, they may have taught themselves, they may have been adopted by a gang or group (kind of like the series leverage) and asked to do such, or it may even be kind of a family business type deal.

 
Neal Shover studied the careers of professional burglars and uncovered the existence of a particularly successful type of burglar.
The good burglar his theory:

 "It is suggested that burglary continues to be more like the social organization of professional theft, as this was presented by Sutherland, than check forgery and armed robbery, as these have been depicted in recent literature. Some possible reasons for this are presented. Finally, it is suggested that the social organization of burglary can be expected to continue to change as a result of macro level changes in the economy and in the nature of security forces"

Here are the top 10 most infamous cat burglars-
 http://listverse.com/2011/09/10/top-10-infamous-cat-burglars/