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A framework for estimating crime location choice based on awareness space

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العنوان: A framework for estimating crime location choice based on awareness space
المؤلفون: Sophie Curtis-Ham, Wim Bernasco, Oleg N. Medvedev, Devon Polaschek
المصدر: Crime Science, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2020)
بيانات النشر: BMC, 2020.
سنة النشر: 2020
المجموعة: LCC:Science (General)
LCC:Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
مصطلحات موضوعية: Awareness space, Crime location choice, Crime pattern theory, Rational choice theory, Routine activity nodes, Science (General), Q1-390, Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology, HV1-9960
الوصف: Abstract This paper extends Crime Pattern Theory, proposing a theoretical framework which aims to explain how offenders’ previous routine activity locations influence their future offence locations. The framework draws on studies of individual level crime location choice and location choice in non-criminal contexts, to identify attributes of prior activities associated with the selection of the location for future crime. We group these attributes into two proposed mechanisms: reliability and relevance. Offenders are more likely to commit crime where they have reliable knowledge that is relevant to the particular crime. The perceived reliability of offenders’ knowledge about a potential crime location is affected by the frequency, recency and duration of their prior activities in that location. Relevance reflects knowledge of a potential crime location’s crime opportunities and is affected by the type of behaviour, type of location and timing of prior activities in that location. We apply the framework to generate testable hypotheses to guide future studies of crime location choice and suggest directions for further theoretical and empirical work. Understanding crime location choice using this framework could also help inform policing investigations and crime prevention strategies.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2193-7680
Relation: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40163-020-00132-7; https://doaj.org/toc/2193-7680
DOI: 10.1186/s40163-020-00132-7
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/ec83c8319c044e05ac974ad8d4e017d8
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.83c8319c044e05ac974ad8d4e017d8
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:21937680
DOI:10.1186/s40163-020-00132-7