Extending offender mobility IRCP-series, vol. 43

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Over het boekEnvironmental criminology brings together a range of theories and areas for study. One ofthese domains is the study of offender mobility how offenders move to and sometimesfrom crime sites, how they select their targets, where they start, the distance theycover and the direction they move in. Inspired by routine activity theory, rational choiceperspectives and pattern theory, but also by principles of human ecology and foragingbehaviour, offender mobility studies have come to a number of recurrent findings.However, most of these studies use similar data samples and settings, as they deal withlocal offenders operating in urban neighbourhoods.This book aims at extending this line of research by examining another sample inanother setting. Through the study of so-called itinerant crime groups in Belgium, themobility of a sample of foreign offenders is investigated in a nation-wide setting. Mobilitypatterns of these offenders are studied through a variety of methods and techniques,including quantitative and qualitative analyses of crime statistics, case files and offenderinterviews.The result is a multi-method study, suiting the tastes of several groups of readerscriminologists interested in offender mobility, policy makers dealing with these itinerantcrime groups, enthusiasts of figures and those who are more interested in the offenderspersonal story.Uit de inhoudInhoudsopgaveMore about IRCP-series