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Project

Distance decay and property crimes by itinerant groups
Code
01J04507
Duration
01 January 2007 → 31 October 2011
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Law and economics
    • Criminography and methods of criminological investigation
    • Criminological theories
    • Criminal law
Keywords
empirical research distance decay itinerant groups
 
Project description
 

The aim of the research is to test the appropriateness of the existing criminological theories regarding mobility and the distribution of criminality, as contained in the distance decay theory, on the phenomenon of property crimes committed by itinerant groups. Therefore, the hypothesis "itinerant groups guide their operations according to a plan (rationally)" will be empirically tested, the result of which will allow to further develop the existing theories.