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Project

Urban Foraging. Target and location choice among graffiti writers.

Outputs and Outcomes

Code

3F017816

Duration

01 October 2016 → 31 August 2020

Funding

Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)

Promotor

Tom Vander Beken

Fellow

Elias Neirynck

Research disciplines

Social sciences
- Criminography and methods of criminological investigation
- Criminological theories
- Criminology not elsewhere classified

Keywords

environmental criminology Optimal Foraging Theory Rational Choice Perspective

Project description

Scholars in environmental criminology argue that the commonly applied rational choice perspective is flawed, and have advanced the hypothesis that offenders exhibit behaviour similar to that of foraging animals when seeking suitable targets and locations. This proposal argues that graffiti writing is an appropriate case to examine whether criminals behave like optimal foragers when choosing where and when to offend.

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