How do offenders choose where to offend? Perspectives from animal foraging

Legal and Criminological Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 193-210

  Johnson, Shane D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brownian walks; Central place foraging; crime linkage; geographic profiling; journey to crime; L vy walks; Offender spatial decision making; Power law

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; CRIMINOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; FORAGER; FORAGING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; OFFENDER; OPTIMAL FORAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REVIEW;

EID: 84906250949     PISSN: 13553259     EISSN: 20448333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/lcrp.12061     Document Type: Review

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