{"id":520,"date":"2009-02-16T08:19:31","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T14:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=520"},"modified":"2009-02-16T08:19:31","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T14:19:31","slug":"a-rise-in-thefts-and-break-ins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2009\/02\/16\/a-rise-in-thefts-and-break-ins\/","title":{"rendered":"a rise in thefts and break-ins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by lordspudz on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/66894755@N00\/3207075861\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3410\/3207075861_4718a9dc46_t.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Pick a window...one with a hole in it preferably.\" \/><\/a>Yesterday the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbusdispatch.com\/live\/content\/local_news\/stories\/2009\/02\/15\/blockwatch.html?sid=101\">Columbus Dispatch<\/a> ran a story exploring whether thefts and break-ins rise in hard times &#8211; the answer is yes, but it may not be clearly linked to the state of the economy. Reporter Elizabeth Gibson calls on sociologist Richard Rosenfeld for a more in-depth interpretation of this trend.<\/p>\n<p>The paper reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More people struggling with the economy means more people turning to crime just to put bread on the table. Right? It&#8217;s poetic, but police, economists and criminologists say it&#8217;s neither that simple nor that dramatic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody thinks it&#8217;s just a law of nature, but that&#8217;s just not true. There are a lot of things more powerful than the economy, operating all the time,&#8221; said David Kennedy, director of the Center for Crime Prevention at the John Jay College of Criminal Studies in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The buzz on the street is that car break-ins and petty thefts are on the rise, prompting some residents to beef up their block-watch programs. But crime actually has been going down or staying stable in many central Ohio communities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But sociologist Richard Rosenfeld presents a more nuanced argument as to why this trend might occur&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Richard Rosenfeld, a sociologist at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, said a subtle increase in crime will deepen with the economy. It&#8217;s not that desperate people turn to a life of crime, he said; it&#8217;s that existing criminals can make more money in a down economy as demand for cheap stolen goods rises.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s anecdotal so far,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But when the numbers come out, I do expect an increase in crime over the next few years.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Columbus Dispatch emphasizes that among academics, the verdict is still out on this link&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbusdispatch.com\/live\/content\/local_news\/stories\/2009\/02\/15\/blockwatch.html?sid=101\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the Columbus Dispatch ran a story exploring whether thefts and break-ins rise in hard times &#8211; the answer is yes, but it may not be clearly linked to the state of the economy. Reporter Elizabeth Gibson calls on sociologist Richard Rosenfeld for a more in-depth interpretation of this trend. The paper reports: More people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[39116,36,131,117],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-crime","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-trends"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}