RT Article
T1 Offenders' choice of target: Findings from victim surveys
JF Journal of quantitative criminology
VO 3
IS 4
SP 355
OP 369
A1 Hough, Mike
LA English
YR 1987
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764277201
AB This paper argues that victimological research on risks can contribute to the study of offender decision-making. It examines some of the problems in conventional approaches to the topic and discusses strengths and weaknesses of surveys of victimization as an additional source of information. It presents and discusses a conceptual framework for examining target selection, the key elements of which are proximity, yield, and accessibility. It presents a “worked example” in the shape of findings on burglary from the British Crime Survey.
K1 Victimization
K1 Burglary
K1 targets
K1 Decision-making
DO 10.1007/BF01066836