Problems of Forensic Sciences 2018 Vol. 113 (CXIII) 27-50
THE DISTANCE COVERED BY PERPETRATORS AND THEIR BEHAVIOUR AT THE SCENE OF THE INCIDENT IN THE CASE OF BURGLARIES AND ROBBERIES
Michał GÓRSKI
College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Streszczenie
The aim of the article was to study the distribution of distances travelled for a sample of the Polish population of perpetrators. The analysis covered burglaries and robberies in Warsaw. The results point to the key role of the analysis of the behaviour at the crime scene and its characteristics in the estimation of the journey to crime distance, which is partly consistent with the hypotheses put forward. The results show that perpetrators are ready to travel longer distances if the event is associated with a greater profit or increased risk. However, differences in the distribution of the distances travelled are not as significant as suggested by previous research. The reasons for this and potential consequences are discussed in this paper.
Słowa kluczowe
Journey to crime; Distance decay function; Geographic profiling.