Journey to Crime Analysis
Journey-to-crime analysis studies how far and where offenders travel from an anchor point — usually home — to commit crimes, and inverts that pattern to infer an unknown offender's likely base. The aggregate distance-decay regularity (most crimes occur near the offender's home, with frequency falling off with distance) underlies geographic profiling, formalized by D. Kim Rossmo in 2000 to prioritize the search for serial offenders.
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Sources
- Rossmo, D. K. (2000). Geographic Profiling. CRC Press. ISBN: 9780849381294
- Rengert, G. F., Piquero, A. R., & Jones, P. R. (1999). Distance decay reexamined. Criminology, 37(2), 427–446. DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1999.tb00492.x ↗
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ScholarGate. (2026, June 22). Journey-to-Crime Analysis and Geographic Profiling. ScholarGate. https://scholargate.app/en/criminology/journey-to-crime-analysis
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