All Burglaries Are Not the Same: Predicting Near-Repeat Burglaries in Cities Using Modus Operandi
Journal: ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
Year: 2022

The evidence that burglaries cluster spatio-temporally is strong. However, research is unclear on whether clustered burglaries (repeats/near-repeats) should be treated as qualitatively different crimes compared to spatio-temporally unrelated burglaries (non-repeats). This study, therefore, investigated if there were differences in modus operandi-signatures (MOs, the habits and methods employed by criminals) between near-repeat and non-repeat burglaries across 10 Swedish cities, as well as whethe