The psychological impact of burglary

Beaton, Alan A.; Cook, Mark; Kavanagh, Mark; Herrington, Carla

doi:10.1080/10683160008410830

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“…Consistent with the finding that domestic burglary elicits psychological stress (Beaton et al, 2000), the prevalence of AjD was comparatively high in our sample (34%) compared with palliative care (14%) and medical samples (19%) (Mitchell et al, 2011). At baseline, mean symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress measured by DASS-21 were more severe in our sample than in 87% of individuals in a normative non-clinical sample (Crawford & Henry, 2003).…”

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confidence: 91%

“…None of the men in the control group met the threshold for clinical impairment. This may have been related to the fact that men report less fear of victimization (Schafer, Huebner, & Bynum, 2006) and, in particular, less psychological impairment after burglary (Beaton et al, 2000;Waller & Okihiro, 1978). The control group was younger than the intervention group, but this was taken into account by including the interaction in the regression analyses.…”

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confidence: 96%

“…The existence of specific symptom criteria enables researchers and practitioners to investigate therapeutic strategies in a target-oriented manner and allows the distinction of clinical and subclinical cases. One example index event for AjD is domestic burglary as victims feel their privacy has been seriously violated and report symptoms including anxiety, anger, hostility, and sadness (Beaton, Cook, Kavanagh, & Herrington, 2000). Burglary victims also frequently report attempts to avoid thoughts and feelings related to the event and concerns about reoccurrence, accompanied by symptoms of hypervigilance (Caballero, Ramos, & Saltijeral, 2000).…”

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confidence: 98%

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Self-help interventions for adjustment disorder problems: a randomized waiting-list controlled study in a sample of burglary victims

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Maercker

2016

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Adjustment disorders (AjD) are among the most frequent mental disorders yet often remain untreated. The high prevalence, comparatively mild symptom impairment, and transient nature make AjD a promising target for low-threshold self-help interventions. Bibliotherapy represents a potential treatment for AjD problems. This study investigates the effectiveness of a cognitive behavioral self-help manual specifically directed at alleviating AjD symptoms in a homogenous sample of burglary victims. Participants with clinical or subclinical AjD symptoms following experience of burglary were randomized to an intervention group (n = 30) or waiting-list control group (n = 24). The new explicit stress response syndrome model for diagnosing AjD was applied. Participants received no therapist support and assessments took place at baseline, after the one-month intervention, and at three-month follow-up. Based on completer analyses, group by time interactions indicated that the intervention group showed more improvement in AjD symptoms of preoccupation and in post-traumatic stress symptoms. Post-intervention between-group effect sizes ranged from Cohen's d = .17 to .67 and the proportion of participants showing reliable change was consistently higher in the intervention group than in the control group. Engagement with the self-help manual was high: 87% of participants had worked through at least half the manual. This is the first published RCT of a bibliotherapeutic self-help intervention for AjD problems. The findings provide evidence that a low-threshold self-help intervention without therapist contact is a feasible and effective treatment for symptoms of AjD.

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“…We characterise the perceived distance of a security breach from individuals in reasoning about the level of harm and potential long term psychological impact. For example, victims of burglary, display long term psychological impacts from the very personal violation of their home (see Beaton et al, 2000), similarly victims of identity theft suffer long term psychological harm (see Roberts et al, 2013). In contrast, we speculate that victims of security threats such as denial of service attacks, loss of National Health Service data and loss of password/personal data stored on company servers are potentially less harmed psychologically as the crime is perceived to be distant i.e., affecting the companies/organisations rather than the individuals whose data has been breached.…”

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Cyber Security Threats and Challenges in Collaborative Mixed-Reality

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Glencross²,

Steed

2019

Front. ICT

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Collaborative Mixed-Reality (CMR) applications are gaining interest in a wide range of areas including games, social interaction, design and health-care. To date, the vast majority of published work has focused on display technology advancements, software, collaboration architectures and applications. However, the potential security concerns that affect collaborative platforms have received limited research attention. In this position paper, we investigate the challenges posed by cyber-security threats to CMR systems. We focus on how typical network architectures facilitating CMR and how their vulnerabilities can be exploited by attackers, and discuss the degree of potential social, monetary impacts, psychological and other harms that may result from such exploits. The main purpose of this paper is to provoke a discussion on CMR security concerns. We highlight insights from a cyber-security threat modelling perspective and also propose potential directions for research and development toward better mitigation strategies. We present a simple, systematic approach to understanding a CMR attack surface through an abstraction-based reasoning framework to identify potential attack vectors. Using this framework, security analysts, engineers, designers and users alike (stakeholders) can identify potential Indicators of Exposures (IoE) and Indicators of Compromise (IoC). Our framework allows stakeholders to reduce their CMR attack surface as well understand how Intrusion Detection System (IDS) approaches can be adopted for CMR systems. To demonstrate the validity to our framework, we illustrate several CMR attack surfaces through a set of use-cases. Finally, we also present a discussion on future directions this line of research should take.

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“…Research on online fraud victims confirmed a similar range of impacts to fraud victims in general victims (Kerr et al 2013). Such impacts are also typical for burglary victims (Maguire 1980;Beaton et al 2000).…”

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Online Fraud Victims in England and Wales: Victims' Views on Sentencing and the Opportunity for Restorative Justice?

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Kerr

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The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice

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The advent of the Internet has expanded opportunities to commit fraud and millions regularly fall victim. Fraud victims in general have been largely neglected by researchers in comparison with other crimes. There has also been very little research on issues related to the sentencing of fraudsters. This article offers some of the first insights on what individual online fraud victims actually want regarding the sentencing of the scammers who target them. It explores their views on aggravating and mitigating factors as well as the different types of sanction which can be used. The article particularly highlights the opportunities and attraction of restorative justice-based approaches to victims. It uses data from in-depth interviews with 15 online fraud victims, six focus groups with a further 48 online fraud victims and interviews with nine professional stakeholders involved in combating this problem.

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The psychological impact of burglary

Cited by 31 publications

References 10 publications

Self-help interventions for adjustment disorder problems: a randomized waiting-list controlled study in a sample of burglary victims

Self-help interventions for adjustment disorder problems: a randomized waiting-list controlled study in a sample of burglary victims

Cyber Security Threats and Challenges in Collaborative Mixed-Reality

Online Fraud Victims in England and Wales: Victims' Views on Sentencing and the Opportunity for Restorative Justice?

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