“Location, Location, Location”: Effects of Neighborhood and House Attributes on Burglars’ Target Selection

ConclusionsBoth area-level and target-level attributes are found to affect burglars ’ target choices. Our results offer support for theoretical accounts of burglary target selection that characterize it as being informed both by attributes of individual properties and attributes of the environment as well as combinations thereof. This spatial decision-making model implies that en vironmental information at multiple and increasingly finer scales of spatial resolution informs crime site selection.
Source: Journal of Quantitative Criminology - Category: Criminology Source Type: research