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1 results foundAuthor: Comeau, Michelle Title: Analysis of 2010 Rochester-City Pawn Shop Transactions Summary: The following report analyzes 2010 data on Rochester pawn shops. Within this paper, pawn shops are listed by pseudonym based on their level of business for 2010. Although many pawn shops may be legitimate businesses, questions of crime and stolen property have become a focus on some pawn shops recently; with the Monroe County Sheriff/FBI raid on Rochester Pawn Brokers, Inc. and several other pawnshops late last September, there is a noted concern of whether these businesses are being utilized to fence stolen property and the frequency to which this occurs. It is for this reason that an analysis of local pawn shops could be fruitful. Pawn shops are second-hand businesses where people may bring goods to either be sold for cash or loaned for a short period of time. Due to limitations in how the data was recorded, our analysis cannot delineate between individuals who pawned and individuals who sold items to the shops; “pawner” will be used to describe any individual who sold or pawned an item. Almost 24,000 transactions occurred within Rochester pawn shops in 2010 – transactions being instances where an individual either pawned or sold an item. Among the 24,000 transactions there were instances of very-active and not-so-active pawners. For this reason, the data will be analyzed by looking at pawners as a whole as well as looking specifically at the most active pawners. The twenty most frequent pawners all sold 30 or more items during this one-year period. The twenty pawners who received the most amount of money for their items were also briefly examined. Furthermore, although there are currently 41 registered pawn shops in Rochester, some pawn shops recorded much higher transactions than others. Fourteen shops recorded fewer than ten transactions for the year – six recorded only one. It is highly probable that several of these shops were the result of typographical errors – in three out of the fourteen shops the addresses were not able to be found. Additionally, Doing Business As information was available for 36 of the pawn shops; of these, 72% opened within the last decade. Details: Rochester, NY: Center for Public Safety Initiatives, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2011. 14p. Source: Center for Public Safety Initiatives Working Paper #2011-03: Internet Resource: Accessed February 19, 2012 at http://www.rit.edu/cla/cpsi/WorkingPapers/2011/2011-03.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United States URL: http://www.rit.edu/cla/cpsi/WorkingPapers/2011/2011-03.pdf Shelf Number: 124202 Keywords: Crime StatisticsNew YorkPawn ShopsStolen Property |