Code
3F017816
Duration
01 October 2016 → 31 August 2020
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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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.