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A new study that a burglary is a serious threat to people's mental health. The survey is from the British charity Victim Support and the home security company ADT. Researchers 1,000 people who had been . They that a quarter of them from anxiety or forms of depression, while a further 25 per cent felt saddened by the thought they could no longer their home and family. The researchers said that feelings of insecurity in for many people after a robbery. They reported that 37 per cent of burglary victims suddenly became afraid of being in the streets, something they had not before being burgled.

Professor Paula Nicolson from the British Psychological Society that people and the police how serious a crime burglary is. Many people fail to it can leave people traumatised. She said: "Burglary is frequently as a minor crime – one that may be and forgotten by the victim….However psychologically and emotionally the experience of being is likely to have a severe emotional outcome for many victims who , up to then, ordinary lives." She the undue trauma for some people in "the compulsion to move house, depression, anxiety, sleeplessness and even marital breakdown".