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Project

An empirical test of crime generators and attractors.
Code
3E024215
Duration
01 October 2015 → 30 September 2021
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Causes and prevention of crime
    • Criminology not elsewhere classified
    • Geography of mobility and transportation
Keywords
crime pattern theory environmental criminology crime generators and attractors
 
Project description

This research project tests one of the central tenets of crime pattern theory and scrutinizes the influence of crime generators and attractors on the spatial clustering of crime in an urban environment. The project focuses both on the spatial aspects of those urban locations where crime clusters and how different offender types interact with these locations.