This article studies how burglars select a house to burglarize. We draw on the rational
choice perspective to investigate how burglars select a target by relying on house-related …

Research methods in social science take advantage from broader trends such as
digitalization and increasing computational power, however, this is an evolving explorative …

Objectives To quantitatively test findings from offender-based literature—primarily consisting
of small-sample interviews or experimental scenarios with convicted burglars—to investigate …

In order to explain how crimes are carried out, and why at a particular place and time and
against a specific target, crime studies increasingly harness theory from behavioural …

Abstract This paper extends Crime Pattern Theory, proposing a theoretical framework which
aims to explain how offenders' previous routine activity locations influence their future …

Objectives Crime diversity is a measure of the variety of criminal offenses in a local
environment, similar to ecological diversity. While crime diversity distributions have been …

Purpose This study uses a retrospective case-control research design to isolate the
influence of routine activities variables independent of neighborhood effects in explaining …

In this article we describe a new method, the Virtual Enactment Method (VEM), to enhance
offender recall and motivation to disclose information by having burglars reflect on their …

Multiple studies have revealed the impact of walkable environments on physical activity.
Scholars attach considerable importance to leisure and health-related walking. Recent …

This study examines the environmental predictors that classify street robbery hot spots and
control street segments in Indianapolis. Empirical controls were generated by matching each …