Offender as Forager? A Direct Test of the Boost Account of Victimization

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Exploring Theories of Victimization Using a Mathematical Model of Burglary (2011, methodology): “…suggest that crimes committed at the same location or nearby are likely to be the work of the same offender(s) (e.g. Kleemans, 2001; Bernasco, 2008; Johnson et al., 2009), and interviews with offenders provide further support for both the boost (e.g. Ericsson, 1995; Ashton et al., 1998) and flag…”
Modeling Micro-Level Crime Location Choice: Application of the Discrete Choice Framework to Crime at Places (2010, unknown): “According to the discrete choice perspective, burglars searching and targeting properties behave like optimal foragers (Bernasco 2009b; Felson 2006; Johnson et al. 2009).”
The Predictive Policing Challenges of Near Repeat Armed Street Robberies (2012, methodology): “…hot spotting technique (ProMap), that uses a revised kernel density equation to give more weight to recent crime events, has been demonstrated to be more predictive of future crime events than traditional kernel density estimation maps (see Bowers et al., 2004; Johnson et al., 2007b, 2009a).”
Adding police to a mathematical model of burglary (2010, background): “Support for the boost hypothesis comes from analyses of burglaries detected by the police in [2, 7] and interviews with offenders as reported in [12].”