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crime places::However, theft risks have been assessed for people usually parking in different locations without taking account of precisely where thefts occurred.
This problem was avoided in the current study, based on data from the 1988 bcs, by examining where car owners usually park in the day and at night, and by assessing their risks at these locations only.
For example, parking in a domestic garage at night is safer by a factor of 20 than parking in a driveway or other private place, and safer by a factor of 50 than parking in the street near home.
A further important finding was that car owners are much more at risk when they venture from their usual parking place.
Indeed, at least as many incidents involve temporarily parked cars as cars left in their usual parking place, even though the former are likely to have been left for much shorter periods.