Do offenders avoid offending near home? A systematic review of the buffer zone hypothesis
Abstract Background There is general agreement that the frequency of crime decreases with the distance from the offender’s home. By way of exception to this distance decay pattern, the buffer zone hypothesis states that offenders avoid offending very close to home. The purpose of the present study w...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2020-05-01
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| Series: | Crime Science |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40163-020-00118-5 |