Mapping an Opportunity Surface of Residential Burglary

By Elizabeth R. Groff, Nancy La Vigne. 2001

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Modeling Micro-Level Crime Location Choice: Application of the Discrete Choice Framework to Crime at Places (2010, unknown): “Many contemporary scholars in geographic criminology advocate the use of much smaller spatial units of analysis (Groff et al. 2009; Oberwittler and Wikstro ¨m 2009; Smith et al. 2000) and prior research has indeed identified census blocks, street segments (Weisburd et al. 2004), street blocks (Kurtz”
A Micro-Spatial Analysis of the Demographic and Criminogenic Environment of Drug Markets in Philadelphia (2007, background): “…suitable target in the absence of a capable guardian in a number of ways, not least by including a wide variety of crime types (Felson, 1998) and by localising the spatial scale to more refined than the neighbourhood or census tract (Groff & LaVigne, 2001; Ratcliffe, 2006; Rengert et al., 2005).”
A Temporal Constraint Theory to Explain Opportunity-Based Spatial Offending Patterns (2006, background): “The article suggests that the temporal constraints imposed by a need to be at a certain place at a certain time inhibit criminal behavior and the spatial search patterns of many offenders, and this insight has implications for criminal justice policy.”