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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Autor principal: Song, Guangwen (Autor)
Otros Autores: Bernasco, Wim ; Liao, Weiwei ; Liu, Lin ; Xiao, Luzi ; Zhou, Suhong
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2019
En: Journal of quantitative criminology
Año: 2019, Volumen: 35, Número: 4, Páginas: 831-854
Acceso en línea: Presumably Free Access
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China
Crime location choice
Mobility
Routine Activities
Routine activities
Theft from the person
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Sumario: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.
ISSN:1573-7799
DOI:10.1007/s10940-019-09406-z