| Autor: |
Johnson, Shane, Bernasco, Wim, Summers, Lucia |
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Conference Papers - American Society of Criminology; 2008 Annual Meeting, p1, 0p |
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Burglary victimization is associated with a temporary elevation in risk to the same and nearby properties; the latter being referred to as near repeats. Prior research suggests that patterns of repeat victimization not only reflect enduring variation in risk, but that the first offense actually increases the risk of a repeat at the same address. Analyses of police arrest data as well as offender accounts, suggest that repeat victimization of the same household is often the work of a returning offender. This paper tests the assertion that patterns of near repeat burglary and vehicle offences are generated by offenders returning to previously targeted locations and also victimizing those nearby; an optimal foraging strategy. Data on detected residential burglaries are taken from police records in The Hague (Netherlands) and Bournemouth (UK), and analyses conducted to demonstrate that detected pairs of burglaries that occur close in space and time are much more likely to involve the same offenders than those that are not. For the UK data, the same analysis is conducted for vehicle crime. We discuss the implications of these findings for theories of offender foraging, and for the prevention and detection of burglaries by the police and other law enforcement agencies. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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