Research on journey-to-crime distance has revealed the importance of both the
characteristics of the offender as well as those of target communities. However, the effect of …

Mental Health and Well-Being provides a sound foundation for understanding alternatives to
the medical model of mental health. Students and professionals alike will find an easy to …

Understanding the relationships between individual offenders' crime locations and their prior
activity locations is important to enable individual level predictions to support crime …

Residents living in neighborhoods marked by concentrated disadvantage (ie, poverty,
joblessness, residential segregation) contend with resource scarcity. Theories indicate that …

This study examines the influence of co-offending on crime location choice: the extent to
which awareness spaces of co-offenders overlap and whether co-offended crimes are more …

Based on an offender spatial decision-making perspective, this burglary target location
choice study aims to understand how physical and social barriers affect why residential …

According to crime pattern theory, offenders likely commit crimes in areas where their
awareness space overlaps with criminal opportunity. If both are necessary conditions for …

Objective: We investigate the role that neighborhood socioeconomic contexts and defendant
mobility patterns play in prosecutorial charge reductions. Methods: Using data from a large …

Neighborhood characteristics are important considerations when offenders make targeting
decisions. Movement patterns among adults and juveniles vary widely, which impacts both …

As an extra-legal factor, social context is a key contributor to racial/ethnic disparities in
incarceration sentences. Neighborhoods may have important, yet underexplored influences …