This book evaluates the newest efforts and initiative aimed at preventing burglary, discusses their merits and short- comings, and suggests how improvements might be incorporated in burglary prevention programs.
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1. Burglary Prevention and Problems of Participation.- 2. Dixon's "Goodfields" Program.- 3. Program Participation and World View.- 4. Program Participation: Attendance at Block Club Meetings.- 5. Program Participation: Property Marking, Neighborhood Watch, and Security Survey.- 6. Program Participation: Contacts and Networks.- 7. Effects of the Program.- 8. Program Participation: World View's Decay with Communication.- 9. Conclusions.- 10. Burglary Prevention: Suggestions to Programs.- Appendix A: Tables.- Appendix B: Research Methodology.- Appendix C: Layperson's Simplified Glossary.- References.