LIFESTYLES, ROUTINE ACTIVITIES, AND RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY VICTIMIZATION

Victimization of the Elderly: An Application of Lifestyles/Routine Activities Theory

Forecasting Residential Burglary*

Following the recent work of Dhiri et al(1999) at the Home Office predicting recorded burglary and theft for England and W ales to the year 2001, econometric and time series models have been constructed for predicting recorded residential burglary to the same date. A comparison between the Home Office econometric predictions and the less alarming econometric predictions made in this paper ident...

Linking Burglary and Target Hardening at the Property Level: New Insights into Victimization and Burglary Protection Victimization and Burglary Protection "

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Lifestyles and routine activities of South African teenagers at risk of being trafficked for involuntary prostitution.

The United Nations estimates that 79% of teenage girls trafficked globally every year are forced into involuntary prostitution. About 247 000 South African children work in exploitative conditions; about 40 000 South African female teenagers work as prostitutes. This paper investigates lifestyles and routine activities of teenagers at risk of being trafficked for involuntary prostitution. The k...

Examination of police dosage in residential burglary and residential theft from vehicle micro-time hot spots

Rooted in the near repeat phenomenon and police crime analysis, a crime “flare up” or micro-time hot spot is the emergence of several closely-related crimes within a few minutes’ travel distance from one another. It occurs within 1–2 weeks and can last several weeks or months before running its course and cooling down. A micro-time hot spot is a type of crime pattern identified by police crime ...