Environmental crimonology

9 important questions on Environmental crimonology

Where is environmental criminology about?

How offenders choose crime locations

Which elements include the location choice theory? (4)

- actors
- characteristics bv front/back row)
- alternatives
- weight rule

All these elements leads to the perception of a criminal and makes an object attractive or not.

The (lens) model? (3 phases)

left: Expected utility
Middle: reward, efforts and risks  (= lens/perceptions of the criminals)
Right: affluence, security and distance

Utility-> perceptions RER <- characteristics DAS
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What elements make robbers select their targets locations? (5)

- cash economies
- distance from home
- accessibility (nearby main roads, stations)
- schools
- ethnically similar to where they live

Which elements include the domocentricity hypothesis? (2)

- Nodes & paths create the activity space of a criminal (awareness space).
- There is a critical time period in the duration

What is the new definition of the awareness space?

Is a persons current or just recent past activity space, including the visual range of these spaces.

Which effects have duration and recency of residental home history of criminals on the change that criminals select their (former) domestic home area as a criminal target place? (5)

Variables: duration - recency

- Long time en short ago (17)
- Short time - short ago (10)
- Long time - long ago (8)
- Short time - long ago (6)
- Never lived there (1)

Learning by criminals (the ideas of repeated crimes)? (2 elements)

The change that criminals choose the same of nearby place and time to re-comit a crime (time and place).

Which five elements influence the change of repeated crimes (learning effects)?

Depends on:
- Recency
- frequency
- proximity
- type of crime
- not arrested or being caught

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