Note
Research outline presented at the Summit on the Economics of Policing and Community Safety held in Ottawa, 2-4 March, 2015.
Issued also in French under the title: Analyse des crimes : recherche et développement.
Author(s) affiliated with: Simon Fraser University and Thompson Rivers University.
Summary
"The following presents a new approach for analyzing crime patterns that merges the concepts of crime attractors and the pull of certain locations on offender movement. This directionality, inherent to city infrastructure, underlies the decision processes of offenders when choosing movement paths towards attractors."