The Republic, April 1, 1903
So it's come to this. Metal theft, the theft of items for the value of their constituent metals, is not a new problem. Its phenomenal growth over the past decade, however, does raise new challenges and the need for better policies and practices. MetalTheft.Net was started in December 2010 to help move the discussion of those challenges and needs forward in a professional and accessible format.
To that end, MetalTheft.Net aims to identify and provide high quality, scholarly, professional, and publicly available literature on metal theft. We also present current news and explore past coverage of the problem, drawing lessons from those who faced it before us. Finally, we hope to cultivate, through our interview series, a community of professionals willing to impart what they have learned. It is our mission to share the current state of knowledge on metal theft with anyone interested while learning as much as we can along the way.
To that end, MetalTheft.Net aims to identify and provide high quality, scholarly, professional, and publicly available literature on metal theft. We also present current news and explore past coverage of the problem, drawing lessons from those who faced it before us. Finally, we hope to cultivate, through our interview series, a community of professionals willing to impart what they have learned. It is our mission to share the current state of knowledge on metal theft with anyone interested while learning as much as we can along the way.
Managing EditorKevin Whiteacre, Ph.D., is Director of the Community Research Center and Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Sociology at the University of Indianapolis. He began studying metal theft in 2007 and has presented his findings at national conferences, including the American Society of Criminology and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. In 2010, he gave an invited talk on metal theft at the Annual Meeting of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc. (ISRI) with Chad Posick, and his research on the relationship between scrap yards and metal theft has received wide coverage from such organizations as Waste & Recycling News. Whiteacre has testified as an expert witness for the prosecution in a grand jury investigation of a large metal theft case. He is the author of Drug Court Justice: Experiences in a Juvenile Drug Court (Peter Lang, 2008) and numerous research articles.
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Contributor
Chad Posick is a doctoral student in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. He has an M.S. in Public Policy and a B.S. in Criminal Justice from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Currently, at the Center for Criminal Justice Policy Research (CCJPR) and the Institute on Race and Justice (IRJ), he is the Massachusetts site coordinator for the National Police Research Platform and researcher on the Shannon Community Safety Initiative. He is also involved in the analysis of the International Self-Report Delinquency (ISRD) study.