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Do offenders avoid offending near home? A systematic review of the buffer zone hypothesis
2020
Crime Science
There is general agreement that the frequency of crime decreases with the distance from the offender's home. By way of exception to this distance decay pattern, the buffer zone hypothesis states that offenders avoid offending very close to home. The purpose of the present study was to assess the validity of this hypothesis. Methods: We conducted a systematic literature review of 4 bibliographic databases, in which we identified 108 studies on criminal distance decay, from which we selected 33
doi:10.1186/s40163-020-00118-5
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