Investigative Decision Making Using Local Police Data to Inform Investigative Decision Making: A Study of Commercial Robbers ’ Spatial Decisions

• Main Authors: Richard M. Cullen, Brent Snook, Kara Rideout, Joseph Eastwood, John C. House
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.514.9459; http://www.mun.ca/psychology/brl/publications/Cullen_-_Article.pdf

play.psych.mun.ca). AbstrAct An examination of the home-to-crime distances (mea-sured as the straight-line distance from the robbery site to the robber’s home location) for 177 solved commercial robberies in St. John’s, newfoundland, indicated that half of the robberies were committed within 1 km of the robber’s home and the frequency of target selection followed a distance-decay pattern. the relationships between home-to-crime distance and 60 robbery-related variables derived from royal newfoundland Constabu-lary (rnC) data were also assessed. results suggest that the rnC may be able to use information on robber age, number of robbers involved, setting (urban vs. rural), type of street (side vs. main), and means of escape (walk-