Engineering study for reducing sign vandalism.

Details

• Creators:
  Harris, Gary
• Corporate Creators:
  Iowa. Dept. of Transportation
• Corporate Contributors:
  Iowa State University
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Property Crimes Signs Vandalism
• Publication/ Report Number:
  HR-246
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Iowa
• Edition:
  Final report; June 1982-June 1992.
• Corporate Publisher:
  Iowa. Dept. of Transportation. Highway Division
• Abstract:
  Sign vandalism has traditionally been a vexing problem for Iowa counties.
  
  The extent of the cost and incidence of these acts have never been fully
  
  ascertained, but a 1990 survey indicated that they cost Iowa counties more
  
  than 1.5 million dollars annually. In 1990, the Iowa Legislature
  
  recognized the seriousness of the problem and strengthened the existing
  
  sign vandalism law by increasing the penalty for illegal possession of a
  
  traffic control device from a simple to a serious misdemeanor. However,
  
  the courts must be willing to prosecute vandals to the magnitude provided
  
  in the Iowa Code. An educational campaign begun in 1987 involving over
  
  200 Iowa school districts to educate students on the seriousness of the
  
  problem evidently did not have the effect of dramatically reducing the
  
  overall cost of sign vandalism in Iowa. This study sought to define the
  
  scope of the problem and possibly offer some effective countermeasures to
  
  combat sign vandalism and theft in Iowa.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:de160f9b0b0d6ff6f15c109abd2cec4560abe91bfe04ce8487fdb7a261916bed
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/23228/dot_23228_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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