Price, V; Sidebottom, AL; Tilley, N; (2014) Understanding and Preventing Lead Theft from Churches: A Script Analysis. In: Grove, L and Thomas, S, (eds.) Heritage Crime: Progress, Prospects and Prevention. (pp. 128-148). Palgrave MacMillan: Cham, Switzerland.

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Many types of crime across several nations have recorded sustained reductions in the past decade – the so-called international crime drop. By contrast, over the same time period the theft of metals has grown internationally mainly attributed to increases in metal prices. This chapter is concerned with a specific type of metal theft that also constitutes a heritage crime: the theft of lead from churches. We begin by summarising what is known about lead theft from churches, asking why lead and churches are attractive targets and settings for crime, respectively. Next, to better understand the process of committing lead theft from churches, we use police recorded crime data (2009- 2013) from Durham, England, to develop a crime script, which we use to identify and appraise existing and prospective prevention measures. We finish by discussing how our findings relate to research on and the prevention of lead theft from churches.

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