“…In recent years there has been a wealth of research into the nature of burglary, and, in particular, the practices of burglars. Such work covers a range of areas, including offenders' target selection (Maguire and Bennett, 1982;Cromwell et al, 1991a;Armitage, 2006;Taylor, 2014;Townsley et al, 2015;Vandeviver et al, 2015), motivations (Cromwell et al, 1991b;Wright and Decker, 1994;Nee and Meenaghan, 2006;Sanders et al, 2017), modus operandi (Bennett and Wright, 1984;Bernasco, 2008;Markson et al, 2010;Fox and Farrington, 2012), as well as the offloading of stolen goods in order to acquire cash and/or drugs (Schneider, 2005;Sutton, 2010).…”