The road to the robbery. Travel patterns in commercial robberies

Previous research suggests that the distance travelled from home to the scene of the crime is related to both the characteristics of the offender and of the offence. In a study on robberies in the Netherlands, the relation between distance travelled and characteristics of robbers and robbery was stu...

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Autores principales: Koppen, Peter J. van (Autor) ; Jansen, Robert W. (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Print Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 1998
En: The British journal of criminology
Año: 1998, Volumen: 38, Número: 2, Páginas: 230-246
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Raubüberfälle
Tatort-Wohnort-Beziehungen
Tatorte
Drogentäter
Kriminalgeographie
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Sumario:Previous research suggests that the distance travelled from home to the scene of the crime is related to both the characteristics of the offender and of the offence. In a study on robberies in the Netherlands, the relation between distance travelled and characteristics of robbers and robbery was studied. The data set consisted of robberies for which the perpetrators were convicted in 1992. The cases (434 robberies on commercial targets committed by 585 robbers) were drawn from case files provided by the Dutch police to the courts
ISSN:0007-0955