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Night Invasion at home is one of the most
feared crimes people can experience. The
statistics are as frightening as the actual
crime
itself.
According to a Statistics Canada Uniform Crime
Reporting (UCR) Survey, about half of home
invasion incidents involved a weapon being used
in the incident compared to 60% of all other
types of robberies.
The most common weapons used in both home
invasion and other types of robberies were
knives or some kind of other cutting
instruments. In 47% of home invasion incidents,
the victim reported sustaining some kind of
physical injuries.
It also appears that the elderly are the most
frequent victims in this type of crime as
compared to other kinds of robberies. Victims
aged 60 or over made up 17% of home night
invasion victims, whereas that same group made
up only 6% of other kinds of robberies.
In the survey it was also reported that in 68%
of the cases, the victim and accused were
strangers, 21% of the time they were casual
acquaintances, and 11% of the time they were
relatives, friends, or had some type of
business relationship.
These crimes are mostly night invasions when
people at home are either asleep or
unsuspecting of people breaking in to their
home.
According to Wikipedia Home
invasion is the
crime of
entering a private and occupied
dwelling,
with the intent of committing a crime, often
while threatening the resident of the dwelling.
It is a legally defined offense in the
United
States,
Australia,
and
New
Zealand, and applies even if
entry is not
forced. It
can also apply if someone is invited into a
home and remains on the premises after being
asked to leave by the
resident.
Home invasion differs
from
burglary
, which is usually defined as
unlawful entry into any occupied or unoccupied
building, with intent to commit one of a list
of specified offences. Home invasion covers an
intent to commit any
crime.
Night invasion may be
accompanied by other crimes. Home
invaders commit
breaking and
entering, and
are sometimes intent on
assault
,
robbery
,
rape
, or
murder
.
Houston, Texas saw a
rise in such crimes in the late 1990s
when elderly women shoppers at an upscale
mall were targeted based on their
jewelry, followed home, and robbed in
their driveways.
Few statistics are
available on home invasion as a crime,
because it is not technically a crime in
most states. Persons charged with "home
invasion" are actually charged
with
robbery
,
kidnapping
, and
assault
charges. But law enforcement
has been seeing the increase in "home-invasion
robberies" since at least June 1995, when
"home-invasion robberies" were the topic of the
cover story of The
FBI
Law
Enforcement Bulletin.
They
state the crime is considered an
alternative to bank or convenience store
robberies, which are getting harder to
pull off cleanly due to technological
advances in security. In this same
article, the FBI recommends educating the
public about night invasion. Before the
term "home invasion" came in use, the
term "hot burglary" was often used in the
literature. Early references also use
"burglary of occupied
homes"
[1]
and
"burglar striking an occupied
residence"
[2]
Gated
communities
are promoted by
property developers as a way of being
safe from this night invasion
crime.
Most recently, two
paroled criminals were charged with six
counts of capital murder during a home
invasion into the Petit family home
in
Cheshire,
Connecticut
on July 23, 2007.
During the invasion, the mother died of
asphyxiation due to strangulation and the
two daughters died of smoke inhalation
after the suspects allegedly set the
house on fire. The men were charged with
first-degree sexual assault, murder of a
kidnapped person, and murder of two or
more people at the same time. The state
attorney is seeking the
death
penalty against
the suspects.
[1]
Another home invasion
occurred on November 26, 2007
when
Washington
Redskins star
Sean
Taylor was
murdered during an night invasion of his
suburban
Miami
home. Four defendants were
charged with this crime.
[3]
Connecticut
Congressman
Chris
Murphy has
proposed making home invasion a
federal
crime in
the
United
States.
[4]
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