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How China put Britain鈥檚 Burglars out of Business

The influx of cheap electronics from China meant that the luxury goods of the 90鈥檚 became the ordinary household items of the Noughties. The 拢19 dvd player suddenly made burglary economically unviable. However, as criminologist James Treadwell explains, this reduction in one type of crime created a rise in other offences.

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