A Temporal Constraint Theory to Explain Opportunity-Based Spatial Offending Patterns

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Crime Mapping: Spatial and Temporal Challenges (2009, background): “Temporal constraint theory provides a model to understand these shifting patterns and consider crime prevention solutions (Ratcliffe 2006).”
The Tyranny of Data? The Bright and Dark Sides of Data-Driven Decision-Making for Social Good (2016, methodology): “The people-centric perspective has mostly been used for individual or collective criminal profiling [67, 72, 91].”
Offender as Forager? A Direct Test of the Boost Account of Victimization (2009, background): “In short, research demonstrates that crime clusters in space and theories which focus on offender mobility and spatial and temporal constraints (see Ratcliffe 2002, 2006 ) offer explanations for this.”
Once Upon a Crime: Towards Crime Prediction from Demographics and Mobile Data (2014, background): “Furthermore, Ratcliffe [28] investigated the spatio-temporal constraints underlying offenders’ criminal behavior.”
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).”