RT Article
T1 Investigating the Distance to Crime for Offenders With Mental Illness: how Routine Is Routine?
JF Journal of contemporary criminal justice
VO 35
IS 2
SP 205
OP 220
A1 Zawisza, Thomas
A2 Frailing, Kelly
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1740783808
AB Research consistently demonstrates that offenders do not travel far to crime. Although this finding has been observed across different types of offending and offenders, one group rarely examined within this paradigm is offenders with mental illness (OWMI). We calculated the distance to crime for a group of offenders with a documented mental illness and compared that distance to those in other publications for other samples. We found that our sample of OWMI traveled about the same and in some cases shorter distances to crime than other offenders. Although this study has limitations, we believe it nevertheless lends support to the environmental criminology paradigm and provides important policy implications, as well as questions for further research.
K1 Distance to crime
K1 Mental illness
K1 Environmental criminology
DO 10.1177/1043986219834818