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July 21, 2025

Neighborhood Context and Spatial Knowledge Shape Effects of Physical Disorder on Burglars’ Location Choice: A Multi-Source Approach

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LCLiang CaiGSGuangwen SongYZYanji Zhang

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Overview

Research reveals how neighborhood context and physical disorder affect burglars' location choices, suggesting different behaviors in disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged areas.

Key Points

  • Burglars' location choices are significantly affected by neighborhood context and physical disorder.
  • Residents in non-disadvantaged areas tend to avoid disadvantaged neighborhoods with visible disorder.
  • Contrarily, burglars from disadvantaged neighborhoods react quickly to disorder in affluent areas.
  • The study utilizes computer vision techniques and mobile data to analyze patterns in burglary decision-making.

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Cai et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/689a060ee6551bb0af8cd362https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/rcny3_v2
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