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Do juvenile, young adult, and adult offenders target different places in the Chinese context?
Abstract Offenders' crime location choices have been a central theme of criminological research. However, little is known about the difference by offenders' age in their crime location choices. Based on the perspective of offender spatial decision-making, this study explores the variation in crime location choices committed by street robbers in different age groups, and examines how age-related activity nodes, journey to crime, and social disorganization influence street robbers' location choices in a large Chinese city. This study examines 7860 street robberies committed by 4358 street robbers between 2012 and 2016 in ZG city, China. A conditional logit selection model was estimated to assess street robbers' crime location choice preferences. The results demonstrate that street robbers favor areas frequented by their age group, close to their residence, and low in social cohesion. Cybercafés affect juvenile and young adult robbers' crime location choices, while transportation hubs impact those of young adult robbers and adult robbers. Schools affect all three age groups, but with a marginal age decay effect. Besides, the distance of journey to crime plays a significantly negative role in an offender's target choice, with the greatest impact in the youngest age group. These findings add insight to the clarification of the difference by age in offenders' crime location choices.
Highlights This study demonstrates that street robbers favor areas that are activity nodes frequented by their age group and closer to their residence and low in social cohesion. In the Chinese urban context, some age-related activity nodes with a slight marginal age decay effect. Journey to crime strongly and negatively affects a street robbers’ whereabouts, especially the younger the age, the greater the impact. These findings add insight to the clarification of the difference by age in offender's crime location choices and provide insights into police investigations.
Do juvenile, young adult, and adult offenders target different places in the Chinese context?
Abstract Offenders' crime location choices have been a central theme of criminological research. However, little is known about the difference by offenders' age in their crime location choices. Based on the perspective of offender spatial decision-making, this study explores the variation in crime location choices committed by street robbers in different age groups, and examines how age-related activity nodes, journey to crime, and social disorganization influence street robbers' location choices in a large Chinese city. This study examines 7860 street robberies committed by 4358 street robbers between 2012 and 2016 in ZG city, China. A conditional logit selection model was estimated to assess street robbers' crime location choice preferences. The results demonstrate that street robbers favor areas frequented by their age group, close to their residence, and low in social cohesion. Cybercafés affect juvenile and young adult robbers' crime location choices, while transportation hubs impact those of young adult robbers and adult robbers. Schools affect all three age groups, but with a marginal age decay effect. Besides, the distance of journey to crime plays a significantly negative role in an offender's target choice, with the greatest impact in the youngest age group. These findings add insight to the clarification of the difference by age in offenders' crime location choices.
Highlights This study demonstrates that street robbers favor areas that are activity nodes frequented by their age group and closer to their residence and low in social cohesion. In the Chinese urban context, some age-related activity nodes with a slight marginal age decay effect. Journey to crime strongly and negatively affects a street robbers’ whereabouts, especially the younger the age, the greater the impact. These findings add insight to the clarification of the difference by age in offender's crime location choices and provide insights into police investigations.
Do juvenile, young adult, and adult offenders target different places in the Chinese context?
Long, Dongping (author) / Liu, Lin (author)
Cities ; 130
2022-08-12
Article (Journal)
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