TY - JOUR EP - 109 SN - 0022-4278 VL - 48 N2 - Research concerned with burglary indicates that it is clustered not only at places but also in time. Some homes are victimized repeatedly, and the risk to neighbors of victimized homes is temporarily elevated. The latter type of burglary is referred to as a near repeat. Two theories have been proposed to explain observed patterns. The boost hypothesis states that risk is elevated following an event reflecting offender foraging activity. The flag hypothesis, on the other hand, suggests that time-stable variation in risk provides an explanation where data for populations with different risks are analyzed in the aggregate. To examine this, the authors specify a series of discrete mathematical models of urban residential burglary and examine their outcomes using stochastic agent-based simulations. Results suggest that variation in risk alone cannot explain patterns of exact and near repeats, but that models which also include a boost component show good qualitative agreement with published findings. IS - 1 TI - Exploring Theories of Victimization Using a Mathematical Model of Burglary Y1 - 2011/02// AV - public A1 - Pitcher, AB A1 - Johnson, SD UR - https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1302477/ KW - burglary KW - mathematical model KW - repeat victimization KW - boost hypothesis KW - risk heterogeneity KW - agent-based simulation KW - MULTIPLE VICTIMIZATION KW - REPEAT KW - CRIME KW - PATTERNS KW - STABILITY KW - DYNAMICS KW - BEHAVIOR KW - OFFENDER KW - PLACES JF - J RES CRIME DELINQ PB - SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC ID - discovery1302477 SP - 83 ER -