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Human Mobility and Crime: Theoretical Approaches and Novel Data Collection Strategies.

Christopher R BrowningNicolo P PinchakCatherine A Calder
Published in: Annual review of criminology (2020)
This review outlines approaches to explanations of crime that incorporate the concept of human mobility-or the patterns of movement throughout space of individuals or populations in the context of everyday routines-with a focus on novel strategies for the collection of geographically referenced data on mobility patterns. We identify three approaches to understanding mobility-crime linkages: ( a ) Place and neighborhood approaches characterize local spatial units of analysis of varying size with respect to the intersection in space and time of potential offenders, victims, and guardians; ( b ) person-centered approaches emphasize the spatial trajectories of individuals and person-place interactions that influence crime risk; and ( c ) ecological network approaches consider links between persons or collectivities based on shared activity locations, capturing influences of broader systems of interconnection on spatial- and individual-level variation in crime. We review data collection strategies for the measurement of mobility across these approaches, considering both the challenges and promise of mobility-based research for criminology.
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