Modeling the target selection process of residential burglars in Flanders at the community, neighborhood and house-level

Burglars rely on a spatially structured, hierarchical, sequential selection process when selecting targets. They initially select a suitable area and then gradually narrow down their selection until they have identified the house they intend to burglarize. The ultimate outcome of this target selection process is a particular house. However, until now studies on burglary location choice modelled this process with larger spatial units of analysis such as residential neighborhoods, census blocks or small-scaled postal code areas as the outcome. This study investigates burglary target location cho... Mehr ...