Image: "How The Burglar Gets Into Your House" (1903), via The Saint Paul Globe

One unfortunate side-effect of the Greek financial crisis has been a rise in domestic burglaries. This has been inspired not only by a desperate response to bad economic times, but by the fact that many people have withdrawn their cash from banks and are now storing their cash at home. As The New York Times reported at the end of July, "in the weeks before capital controls were imposed at the end of June, billions of euros fled the Greek banking system. Greeks feared that their euro deposits might be automatically converted to a new currency if Greece left the eurozone and would quickly lose value, or that they would face a 'haircut' to their accounts if their bank failed amid the stresses of the crisis."

Burglary is a spatial crime: its very definition requires architecture. By entering an architectural space, whether it's a screened-in porch or a megamansion, theftor petty larceny becomes burglary, a spatially defined offense that cannot take place without walls and a roof......Continue Reading

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