RT Article
T1 Offender as Forager? A Direct Test of the Boost Account of Victimization
JF Journal of quantitative criminology
VO 25
IS 2
SP 181
OP 200
A1 Johnson, Shane D. 1971-
A1 Summers, Lucia
A1 Pease, Ken 1943-
A2 Summers, Lucia
A2 Pease, Ken 1943-
LA English
YR 2009
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1767143338
AB Recent research has demonstrated that burglary clusters in space and time, resulting in temporal changes in crime hotspot patterns. Offender foraging behavior would yield the observed pattern. The offender as forager hypothesis is tested by analyzing patterns in two types of acquisitive crime, burglary and theft from motor vehicle (TFMV). Using a technique developed to detect disease contagion confirms that both crime types cluster in space and time as predicted, but that the space–time clustering of burglary is generally independent of that for TFMV. Police detections indicate that crimes of the same type occurring closest to each other in space and time are those most likely to be cleared to the same offender(s), as predicted. The implications of the findings for crime forecasting and crime linkage are discussed.
K1 Detection
K1 Foraging
K1 Space–time clustering
K1 Crime hotspots
K1 Acquisitive crime
DO 10.1007/s10940-008-9060-8