Theft of construction equipment, materials, and tools from construction sites results in approximately one billion dollars in direct annual losses to the U.S. construction industry per year. A better understanding of theft characteristics is vital to reducing this figure. This study analyzes over 15,000 incidents from the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) to understand characteristics such as theft prevalence, average monetary losses, and recovery rates. The study finds that contractors lost an average of about $6,000 per incident. Trucks are the most expensive theft targets, with an average loss of about $42,000 per incident, and also the most likely item to be recovered (55% of the time). However, recovery rate across all targets was less than 7%. The results of this study provide the most accurate and extensive statistics to date on construction theft characteristics. The study also identifies best practices to reduce thefts such as the use of survellience systems. Further, the use of advanced marking and tracking systems to safeguard expensive equipment and vehicles and aid their recoveries are discussed. The findings are expected to aid contractors and law enforcement agencies in formulating methods for reducing thefts of construction items and improving the likelihood of their recoveries.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Rutgers University, 2007. / "Graduate Program in Psychology."

Univ., Diss.--Augsburg, 2004.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Pardee Rand Graduate School, Santa Monica, California, 2009. / "This document was submitted as a dissertation in March 2009." Title taken form title screen (viewed October 14, 2009)

Caption "The felling of the palm tree at the Sacred Heart Church King Wms Town [King William's Town]. 1962. The Church had been so well balanced by the two huge palm trees. Now it is all odd. The first English Starling in K.W.T. were seen in the right-hand palm."

Caption "A beautiful Hyphene palm felled to make way for a man-made religious sanctuary. Sheer desecration. Garden of Sacred Heart Church, King Wms. Town [King William's Town]. June 1962. R.C. of course."

Original hand-written caption "Row of pines in Alexandria Road, King Williams Town, the main thoroughfare of the national road through the town, each with a notice bearing a word which in the end made a sentence inviting people to attend the Dutch Reformed Church Bazaar. Strangely though the wording is in English, not in Afrikaans”.

This study aimed at investigating the legitimacy of violence as political act, especially the issue of vandalism surrounding service delivery protests in South Africa. The investigation was conducted in a small township around Soweto called Kliptown as a case study. This study was necessitated by the increasing number of violent service delivery protests around all provinces in the country. The statement of the problem provided a foundation within which the aims of the study were explained. The importance of this research cannot be justified enough especially given the mounting daily protests witnessed over service delivery by different communities from different provinces around the country.