LS372 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Routine Activity Theory, Crime Mapping, Homicide
6 Mar 2017
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Geographical profiling focuses on determining the probable spatial behaviour of offender within the context of the locations of, and the spatial relationships between the various crime sites. Geoprofiler: a person trained to see spatial patterns in crimes. Goal: to identify roughly where the offender lives or at least sleeps at night, based on locations of his or her crimes. Crime mapping: all offenders and all crimes in a particular area. Three factors need to be present at the same time and same location: motivated offender, suitable victim, absence of a guardian able to protect the victim. Awareness space: parts of city that they have some knowledge of. Target backcloth: geographical and temporal distributions of suitable crime targets or victims across physical language. Unlikely to commit crime that takes him or her too far away from surroundings because of increased risk. Reasoning person and is unlikely to take risk without sufficient benefit.
