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CRIMINAL MOBILITY OF ROBBERY OFFENDERS

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Date Issued:
2007
Abstract/Description:
The current paper addresses the mobility and willingness to travel of robbery offenders. A five-sector robbery typology was constructed, consisting of: personal robbery, commercial robbery, carjacking robbery, home-invasion robbery, and robbery by sudden snatching. Defining mobility as the straight-line distance between the offender's home residence and the location of the robbery offense, the extent of criminal mobility for each type of robbery offense was analyzed. Using geographical information system (GIS) technologies and, more specifically, geocoding software programs, the latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates of the offender's home and offense's location was determined. It was found that a subset of robbery offenders exhibit relatively high mobility across all five robbery types. However, distinct mobility patterns also emerged between the different types of robbery offenses. Policy and research implications from these findings are discussed.
Title: CRIMINAL MOBILITY OF ROBBERY OFFENDERS.
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Name(s): Drealan, Joe, Author
Watkins, R. Cory, Committee Chair
University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor
Type of Resource: text
Date Issued: 2007
Publisher: University of Central Florida
Language(s): English
Abstract/Description: The current paper addresses the mobility and willingness to travel of robbery offenders. A five-sector robbery typology was constructed, consisting of: personal robbery, commercial robbery, carjacking robbery, home-invasion robbery, and robbery by sudden snatching. Defining mobility as the straight-line distance between the offender's home residence and the location of the robbery offense, the extent of criminal mobility for each type of robbery offense was analyzed. Using geographical information system (GIS) technologies and, more specifically, geocoding software programs, the latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates of the offender's home and offense's location was determined. It was found that a subset of robbery offenders exhibit relatively high mobility across all five robbery types. However, distinct mobility patterns also emerged between the different types of robbery offenses. Policy and research implications from these findings are discussed.
Identifier: CFE0001588 (IID), ucf:47113 (fedora)
Note(s): 2007-05-01
M.S.
Health and Public Affairs, Department of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies
Masters
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Subject(s): criminal mobility
criminal travel
journey-to-crime
robbery
geocode
GIS
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0001588
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Host Institution: UCF

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