10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RAM RAIDING»
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ram raiding in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Ram-raiding is a variation on burglary in which a van, SUV, car, or other heavy vehicle is driven through the windows or doors of a closed shop, usually a department store or jewellers shop, to allow the perpetrators to loot it.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series
ram-raid n., an instance of ram-raiding. 1987 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) 12 Nov
. 2/7 Thieves drove through the shutters of a Tyneside warehouse and loaded up
with television sets and video recorders. The *ram-raid took place last night.
J. A. Simpson, Michael Proffitt, E. S. C. Weiner, 1997
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Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
rampsman noun Someone who commits robbery with violence. 1859–. H.
WALPOLE The perils of London—the cracksmen, the rampsmen, the snorrers
and thimble-screwers (1932). ram-raiding noun Brit The perpetration of a smash-
and-grab ...
John Ayto, John Simpson, 2010
... 164 extras, ram raiding, 165 family structure, impact of burglary, 48 Fast Track
Programme, 186 fear long-term impacts of, 47 of reoccurrence, 45 see also
anxiety females, prosecution of, 175 fences operations against, USA, 174
professional ...
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Coping with Overloaded Criminal Justice Systems: The Rise of ...
Case 4 Two persons are caught ram-raiding (breaking into a shop by driving a
vehicle through the shop window in order to steal as much as possible) a clothing
store. When their houses are searched, evidence is found that they are members
...
Jörg-Martin Jehle, Marianne Wade, 2006
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Architecturally Speaking: Practices of Art, Architecture and ...
The brief from the local authority asked for a hinged barrier because they wanted
to stop ram- raiding: art's really good at stopping ram-raiding. Gradually through
talking to the commissioner the brief became less over-determined: there hadn't ...
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Secure Foundations: Key Issues in Crime Prevention, Crime ...
This can be simply illustrated by the case of ram-raiding. Old-style shop windows
stopped at thigh height, being supported on a substantial wall. This precluded
ram- raiding. When shopfitters supplied floor-to-ceiling windows to increase ...
Scott Ballintyne, Kenneth Pease, Vic McLaren, 2000
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The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional ...
56, 1978 • — Ryan Aven-Bray, Ridgey Didge Oz Jack Lang, p. 41, 1983 • —
William Dodson, The Sharp End, p. 27, 2001 ramped adjective drunk us • —
Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 8, Spring 1992 ram-raid; ram-
raiding ...
Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, 2006
pA;t/ /-pA;rt/ noun [C usually plural] a large wall built round a town, castle, etc. to
protect it ram-raiding /"r&m.reI.dIN/ noun [U] when a car, usually a stolen car, is
driven through the front window of a shop so that the contents of the shop can be
...
Shopping's title referred to a related (and more genuinely new) early-1990s
phenomenon—ram-raiding—in which large-scale shoplifting (usually of 'designer
' goods) is achieved by ramming a stolen vehicle through a shop-front—a method
...
Steve Chibnall, Robert Murphy, 2005
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RAM RAIDING»
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Constable Country's phantom car parking vandals turn to ram raiding
In the latest attack ram raiders demolished a pair of ticket machines installed by Colchester borough council. A council spokesman said the machines, a notice ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Dec 14»
