2017 Volume 16 Issue 1 Pages 24-27
While repeat burglary refers to the repeated victimization of a household in a certain period of time, near repeats refer to the spatio-temporal concentration of victimization around a burgled household. We aimed to reveal such spatio-temporal patterns of apartment burglaries in Fukuoka City, Japan using data of 8,845 cases occurred between January 2005 and December 2014 provided by the Fukuoka Prefectural Police within the "Crime Prevention Research Adviser Framework." As a result, we confirmed spatio-temporal concentration of victimization not only in the neighborhoods of once-burgled apartments (near repeats) but in the same buildings of them (building near repeats).
