Burglary in Mississippi

Burglary is a property crime in Mississippi that involves breaking and entering the property of another person with intent to commit a crime. The most commonly committed crime during burglary in Mississippi is theft or larceny, meaning to take possessions and remove them, but any illegal act that begins with breaking and entering begins with burglary. Other commonly committed crimes in conjunction with burglary include:

Arson: the intentional setting or attempt to set a fire to further a criminal purpose, such as insurance fraud, property damage or even harm to another person in Mississippi.
Vandalism: breaking into a place in Mississippi in order to cause some form of destruction, defacement, or devaluing of the property itself or of the items contained therein.
Trespassing: an extremely common burglary-related crime in Mississippi, trespassing is simply entering into the inclosed land of another person without that person's permission.
Theft: Breaking and entering with the intent to steal another's property is a common burglary crime in Mississippi, and accounts for the largest percentage of burglary-related property crimes in the state with over 54,000 instances in 2008 alone
Malicious Mischief: commonly associated with vandalism, malicious mischief in Mississippi involves specific amounts of property damage and the situations that allow a person or persons to engage in such a crime.
The FBI reports burglary accounted for 26,024 crimes in Mississippi in 2008, making it significant proportion of the property crimes committed in the state. Unfortunately, the statistics indicate that burglary is frequently followed by larceny, which in turn perpetuates the cycle of crime and hopelessness felt by so many people across Mississippi and across the nation. Burglary is a very common crime throughout the state, as the downward shift in the economy has drive countless numbers of people into desperate situations where they believe that the only way they can provide for themselves or their family is to break into someone else's property to take what doesn't belong to them, or destroy or damage it to express the frustration and rage they have about their life.

There are usually victims on both ends of the legal spectrum when someone commits a burglary-related crime in Mississippi. The person that has their property stolen or damaged suffers from the loss of their goods, as well as the violation of their personal security, while the person that allegedly commits the crime suffers the mental hardship of knowing they may have wronged their fellow Mississippian, and now faces an uncertain future of criminal charges.

As the pain of the recent economic uncertainty recedes behind us to the pages of history, hopefully, in the months and years to come, burglary in Mississippi will become but an unpleasant memory of a time best forgotten.

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