RT Article
T1 Co-offenders’ crime location choice: do co-offending groups commit crimes in their shared awareness space?
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 58
IS 5
SP 1193
OP 1211
A1 Lammers, Marre
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1580222684
AB 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 likely committed in this overlap in awareness space. In total, 4,654 offenders from the greater The Hague region in The Netherlands were studied. They committed 6,283 crimes; of which, 3,612 were co-offended. The data were analysed using a discrete spatial choice model. Results show that most co-offending groups share 50 per cent or less of their awareness space. Offender groups are significantly more likely to commit crimes in areas known to multiple offenders in the group (the shared awareness space of the group) than in areas known to one offender or none of the offenders.
K1 Crime location choice
K1 Co-offending
K1 Discrete spatial choice model
K1 Awareness space,
K1 Crime pattern theory
DO 10.1093/bjc/azx069