What makes long crime trips worth undertaking? Balancing costs and benefits in burglars’ journey to crime
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- Christophe Vandeviver (UGent) , Stijn Van Daele (UGent) and Tom Vander Beken (UGent)
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- This study taps into rational choice theory and scrutinizes the assumption that profit maximization and effort minimization govern decisions related to burglary behaviour and the journey to crime. It treats distance as one of the major costs in the burglary target selection process and uses community characteristics to gain insight into how the anticipation of particular benefits favours the incremental costs of long crime trips. 2,387 burglary trips were extracted from police records and analysed using negative binomial regression analysis. The journey-to-crime distance was found to increase when burglaries were committed in communities containing motorways, dense road networks, and being ethnically heterogeneous. The journey-to-crime distance was found to decrease when densely populated areas and communities with high clearance rates are targeted.
- Keywords
- RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY, costs and profits, rational choice theory, burglary, Journey-to-crime, negative binomial, CRIMINAL MOBILITY, OFFENDERS, CHOICE, ROBBERIES, PATTERNS, BEHAVIOR, MODEL, ROAD
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-5822100
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- Vandeviver, Christophe, et al. “What Makes Long Crime Trips Worth Undertaking? Balancing Costs and Benefits in Burglars’ Journey to Crime.” BRITISH JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY, vol. 55, no. 2, 2015, pp. 399–420, doi:10.1093/bjc/azu078.
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- Vandeviver, C., Van Daele, S., & Vander Beken, T. (2015). What makes long crime trips worth undertaking? Balancing costs and benefits in burglars’ journey to crime. BRITISH JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY, 55(2), 399–420. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azu078
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- Vandeviver, Christophe, Stijn Van Daele, and Tom Vander Beken. 2015. “What Makes Long Crime Trips Worth Undertaking? Balancing Costs and Benefits in Burglars’ Journey to Crime.” BRITISH JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY 55 (2): 399–420. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azu078.
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- Vandeviver, Christophe, Stijn Van Daele, and Tom Vander Beken. 2015. “What Makes Long Crime Trips Worth Undertaking? Balancing Costs and Benefits in Burglars’ Journey to Crime.” BRITISH JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY 55 (2): 399–420. doi:10.1093/bjc/azu078.
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- 1.Vandeviver C, Van Daele S, Vander Beken T. What makes long crime trips worth undertaking? Balancing costs and benefits in burglars’ journey to crime. BRITISH JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY. 2015;55(2):399–420.
- IEEE
- [1]C. Vandeviver, S. Van Daele, and T. Vander Beken, “What makes long crime trips worth undertaking? Balancing costs and benefits in burglars’ journey to crime,” BRITISH JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 399–420, 2015.
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