How to protect yourself from crimeA complete guide to self-protection. This valuable guide will show you and your family how to be safer at home, on the road, at work, and even on vacation. Contents: security in your home; security away from home: vehicle security and carjacking, shopping, the workplace, vacations, business trips, and traveling, and moving to another community; family security; community security: neighborhood crime prevention, school and campus security, hospitals and nursing homes, elderly victims, consumer fraud, con-artists, and con-games, and investment fraud and white-collar crime; protection from violent crimes; corporate security: kidnapping and extortion, terrorism, bombs, and bomb threats, and computer and high-tech crime; and the criminal justice system. |
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| Title | How to protect yourself from crime |
| Author | Ira A. Lipman |
| Edition | 3, illustrated |
| Publisher | Contemporary Books, 1990 |
| ISBN | 0809242443, 9780809242443 |
| Length | 386 pages |
| Subjects | › › Crime prevention Crime prevention/ United States Dwellings Dwellings/ Security measures House & Home / Security Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare Social Science / Criminology Social Science / General |
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