Crime Feeds on Legal Activities: daily Mobility Flows Help to Explain Thieves' Target Location Choices
According to routine activity theory and crime pattern theory, crime feeds on the legal routine activities of offenders and unguarded victims. Based on this assumption, the present study investigates whether daily mobility flows of the urban population help predict where individual thieves commit cr...
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Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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2019
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Journal of quantitative criminology
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Zusammenfassung: | According to routine activity theory and crime pattern theory, crime feeds on the legal routine activities of offenders and unguarded victims. Based on this assumption, the present study investigates whether daily mobility flows of the urban population help predict where individual thieves commit crimes. |
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ISSN: | 1573-7799 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s10940-019-09406-z |