Criminal activity spaces and crime linkage analysis : towards a suspect prioritization system
Journal: University of Huddersfield Repository (University of Huddersfield)
Year: 2018

Offender spatial behaviour has been utilized extensively by practitioners and researchers alike as a vector to study criminal behaviour. Psychologists and criminologists alike have been utilizing spatial behaviour as a means to describe crime patterns, which has resulted in several areas of specific research. Several prominent theories of criminal behaviour resulted from this work including routine activity theory and crime pattern theory. This thesis builds upon past research by reintroducing a