TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Modelling crime flow between neighbourhoods in terms of distance and of intervening opportunities
JO  - Crime prevention and community safety
A1  - Elffers, Henk
A1  - Reynald, Danielle
A1  - Averdijk, Margit
A1  - Bernasco, Wim
A1  - Block, Richard
SP  - 85
EP  - 96
VL  - 10
IS  - 2
N2  - 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<p /> 
LA  - 
SN  - 1460-3780
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.cpcs.8150062
ID  - ref1
ER  -