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...burglaries, larcenies, leading to a higher unreported number and lower reported number.“In general, the difference between a larceny and a burglary is the element of trespass,” said Catalano. If the theft takes place by someone trespassing, then it is considered a burglary??the crime that has to be reported—whereas a theft in a public area is a larceny.“When we don’t know definitively who committed the crime, we make the assumption that a theft was committed by a trespasser, thereby making...
...activity around campus have nearly numbed me to the frightening reality of these offenses. Upon recently reading of Harvard’s high rate of crime compared to the rest of the Ivy League—with 466 burglaries in 2004, even if our definition of “burglary?? does seem to be somewhat liberal—I wasn’t so shocked. Indeed, when I stepped into the hallway outside my bedroom last month to see the police arresting a level three sex offender, I hardly batted an eyelash. One might infer from...
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