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The best current method for estimating when burglaries occur is to use the aoristic signature of a series of burglaries, imputing more specific times from time ranges. This allows a researcher to estimate when burglaries are actually occurring. Burglar alarms are also important as manifestations of the fear of crime and as attempts to reduce crime. As the fear of crime has increased the number of burglar alarms has increased also. Along with the increase in alarms came an increase in alarm calls to police, a significantly high number of which are probable false alarms. Some estimates state that 98% of the calls to police for burglar alarms were for false alarms. Police often know exactly when alarms occur even though they do not know exactly when the burglaries themselves occur. This dissertation considers that the timing patterns for alarm occurrence might provide a window into the timing patterns by which burglaries themselves occur. 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