Citation

Elffers H, Reynald D, Averdijk M, Bernasco W, Block R. Crime Prev. Community Safety 2008; 10(2): 85-96.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group -- Palgrave-Macmillan)

DOI

10.1057/palgrave.cpcs.8150062

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Using data on solved crimes in The Hague, the Netherlands, we study crime trips between areas where offenders live and where they offend, in order to test the hypothesis that the number of criminal opportunities between two areas ("intervening opportunities") influences the number of crime trips that take place between those areas. The findings are that, contrary to the hypothesis, simple geographical distance between two areas explains the number of crime trips between them better than various measures of intervening opportunities do.

Keywords: intervening opportunities, crime trips, gravitational models