Ministry of Justice figures show between 2020-and-2021, repeat burglaries jumped from 40 to 63 percent.

Criminology Institute Senior Lecturer, Trevor Bradley, says it's a pretty conventional pattern.

He says burglars wait for household items to be replaced - then go back and take them again.

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