EFFECTS OF ATTRACTIVENESS, OPPORTUNITY AND ACCESSIBILITY TO BURGLARS ON RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY RATES OF URBAN NEIGHBORHOODS

By Wim Bernasco, F. Luykx. 2003

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How Do Residential Burglars Select Target Areas?: A New Approach to the Analysis of Criminal Location Choice (2005, background): “In a recent study, Bernasco and Luykx (2003) indeed showed that proximity to areas where many burglars reside was the single best predictor of neighbourhood burglary rates, and remained significant when other factors were controlled for.”
A STATISTICAL MODEL OF CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR (2008, background): “Third, in the case of residential burglary, the tendency to stay close to home often outweighs gains that might be had in traveling farther to victimize more desirable targets.(5,6) Random walk models should therefore be appropriate for studying how criminal offenders encounter criminal opportunitie”
Modeling Micro-Level Crime Location Choice: Application of the Discrete Choice Framework to Crime at Places (2010, unknown): “While some have attempted to resolve the latter issue by including in the burglary rate regression equation a measure of the concentration of known burglars living nearby the target area (Bernasco and Luykx 2003), this does not solve the former issue (the assumption that all burglars use the same de”