Configural Behavior Settings of Crime Event Locations Toward an Alternative Conceptualization of Criminogenic Microenvironments

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-6-2015

Publication Title

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

Volume

52

Issue

3

First page number:

373

Last page number:

402

Abstract

The utility of configural behavior settings is explored as an alternative unit of analysis for place-based criminological research. Four research questions are addressed: (1) How do robberies cluster within certain behavior settings? (2) How are conclusions about robbery’s behavior settings influenced by the distance interval used to measure the proximate environment? (3) Are dominant behavior settings homogeneous across patrol districts? and (4) Is there temporal variability among dominant behavior settings?

Keywords

Routine activity theory; criminological theory; rational choice theory; measurement; crime

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