Thesis (doctoral)--Universiteit te Utrecht.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Tübingen.

Thesis (MPhil)--AUT University, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references. Also held in print (x, 193 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.) in the Archive at the City Campus (T 364.1633 JOH)

Thesis (LLM. (Labour Law)) -- University of Limpopo, 2013

There has been much debate over the last three decades on the relationship between design of housing and crime, dominated by Newman's 'defensible space' and Coleman's 'antidisadvantagement scales'. Their approach has caused much confusion due to their failure to distinguish between social and spatial 'causes'. This thesis presents research conducted on the relationship between design of urban housing estates and spatial vulnerability to crime, addressing this important design issue, from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective. It examines the multi-disciplinary discourse on housing design guidance; design against crime and criminological insights on the spatial factors influencing the location of crime and selection of crime targets. It proposes a methodological framework applying the syntactic approach developed by Professor Bill Hillier and the former Unit of Architectural Studies at the Bartlett, University College London, through which the factors of spatial vulnerability can be identified and analysed in purely spatial and architectural terms. Based on a series of case studies on the locations of burgled dwellings in three London housing estates, the research identifies the two basic principles of vulnerability: accessibility and surveillability at the local level of articulation of space and the global level (of the spatial network as a whole), and the interrelationships between them, which ultimately determine the vulnerability of locations. Rather than condemning a list of block features, spatial layout is treated as a whole system, and the spatial factors of vulnerability are related to architectural choices at the various levels or stages of the design layout. Each estate design has its own individual set of combinations of spatial variables and constants in the layout and block/dwelling typology related to the parameters outlined above, which lead to a trade off between the likelihood of being seen or caught and the difficulty of getting in and out. Ultimately, visibility and accessibility are related to 'surveillability' in two forms: visual and social (active presence of people). However, it is not just visibility that is important, but also permeability (links via dwelling entrances), which allow direct active control over space (interception) The implications in terms of design for safer housing environments are, that simple recipes of good and bad design are highly questionable, since spatial configuration has to be examined as a whole. Thus understanding of the spatial principles and mechanisms of vulnerability as the intrinsic interrelationship between local and global factors, is the key to designing safer urban housing environments.

Identity theft is an ever-present and ever-growing issue in our society. Identity theft, fraud and abuse are present and growing in every market sector. The data available to describe how these identity crimes are conducted and the consequences for victims is often recorded in stories and reports by the news press, fraud examiners and law enforcement. To translate and analyze these stories in this very unstructured format, this thesis first discusses the collection of identity theft data automatically using text mining techniques from the online news stories and reports on the topic of identity theft. The collected data are used to enrich the ITAP (Identity Threat Assessment and Prediction) Project repository under development at the Center for Identity at The University of Texas. Moreover, this thesis shows the statistics of common behaviors and resources used by identity thieves and fraudsters — identity attributes used to identify people, resources employed to conduct the identity crime, and patterns of identity criminal behavior. Analysis of these results should help researchers to better understand identity threat behaviors, offer people early warning signs and thwart future identity theft crimes. / text

Thesis (M.S.)--University of North Texas, Dec., 2007. / Title from title page display. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.F.A.)--West Virginia University, 2010. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 317 p. Includes abstract.

Of central importance to this thesis is the way security measures contradict the process through which museums have been seeking to divest themselves of theoretical hierarchies and value judgments in recent years. A context for investigation is established that considers how a perceptible increase in art theft, complicated by the escalating value of individual objects and the proliferation of museums as represented by a rise in attendance figures has produced a climate of vulnerability for arts collections around the world. In response, museums are installing unprecedented levels of security that are having a significant impact on established viewing conditions and redefining museum space. Further hindering this situation is the disparity between the fields of museology and museum security. These two fields have grown simultaneously, yet independently of one another producing a significant paradox between museum rhetoric and practice. To address the disconnection, this thesis seeks to make museum security relevant to academic discourse by aligning features related to the safeguarding of collections with contemporary museological considerations. Taking the void left behind by a stolen object as a point of departure, this thesis examines the ways in which theft alters the relationship between viewer, object and space in the museum setting. Three major case studies each form a chapter exploring the impact of the theft on established viewing conditions. As the first art theft of the modern era, the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre, Paris (1911) creates an historic precedence for this investigation allowing for the examination of how conventions based upon exclusivity were dismantled by the theft, only to be reproduced by a legacy of increasingly prohibitive security measures. The theft of thirteen objects from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (1990) is used to address the implications of theft on a fixed and introspective collection, and in particular upon institutional identity and public memory. The theft of the Scream and Madonna from the Munch Museum, Oslo (2004) and its subsequent security upgrade reveal a negation of institutional transparency and the birth of a new security aesthetic. An analysis of each space is balanced against material gathered from a variety of visual, textual and ephemeral sources to produce a developed understanding of affected space.

M. Tech. Policing / The research project investigated the nature of theft of motor vehicles in the Kraaifontein policing area and identified integrated crime prevention initiatives, as well as specific factors that contributed to this phenomenon.