Exploring Directional Consistency in Offending: The Case of Residential Burglary in The Hague

摘要

Many aspects of human behaviour are remarkably stable across times, places and situations.nRepetition and predictability also characterises our geographical behaviour. Prior researchnhas confirmed that criminal behaviour is no exception. Offenders tend to recidivate, andnrecidivists tend to be behaviourally consistent in many aspects, including geographical ones.nThe present study assesses directional consistency in offending. It reviews the literature onndirectional consistency. It proposes an improved measure of directional consistency, andnempirically uses this measure to explore directional consistency amongst a set of 268nburglars in The Hague.