Right place, right time? Making crime pattern theory time-specific

Abstract Objectives Crime pattern theory and the related empirical research have remained rather a-temporal, as if timing of routine activities crime plays no role. Building on previous geography research, we extend propose that an offender’s spatial knowledge acquired during daily is not equally applicable to all times day. Methods We put this extended a first test by applying discrete choice model detailed information from Netherlands 71 offences committed 30 offenders collected through unique online survey instrument. The reported their most important activity nodes offence locations over past year, well specific they regularly visited these locations. Results results show almost 40% are within neighbourhoods offenders’ nodes, increasing 85% when including first-, second- third-order neighbourhoods. Though statistically significant in our small sample, further suggest more likely commit at same time day than different Conclusion Our extension only tentatively supported. argue for replication with larger samples before any firm conclusions warranted.