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45 J. Res. Crime & Delinquency 4 (2008)

handle is hein.journals/jrcd45 and id is 1 raw text is: Criminal MobilityPuliaton and Criminal AchievementrciCm Carlo Morsellilinec Marie-Nodle Royer Universitti de Mon trial This study examines the impact of criminal mobility on criminal earning pat- terns in a sample of incarcerated offenders who reported their criminal expe- nences over a three-year period. Criminal mobility is indicated by an individual's offending perimeter and not the traditional journey-to-crime measure. Findings reveal that the offending perimeter length is a factor of criminal achievement in that mobile offenders reported higher financial earn- ings from crime than immobile offenders. Greater distances traveled for crime were also generally associated with higher criminal earnings, but this was more salient for predatory offenders than market offenders. Keywords: spatial mobiity; social network; criminal achievement O ffenders either commit crime while in travel or travel to commit crime. The former is consistent wit a routine activity approach to crime, whereas the latter is consistent with a rational choice or purposive action premise. Research on criminal mobility provides evidence for both, but the routine activity explanation appears to be the theory of choice for most researchers. The term, criminal mobility, refers to distances traveled by offenders to commit their crimes. Studies in this area have focused either on the movement of aggregate groups of offenders within, beyond, and between geographical territories or on the journey-to-crime distances that offenders pursue between their place of residence and the location of a crime. A recurrent finding in such research is that offenders travel relatively short distances when committing their crimes. We ask whether travel serves any useful purpose for offenders. By doing so, we verify Felson's (2006) strategic foraging claim that some offenders will forage in patches some- what farther away if additional booty makes it worth their while (p. 265). Our assessment is conducted within a criminal achievement framework and Authors' Note: An earlier version of this article was presented at the 14th Annual Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis Meetingi Chilliwack, Canada.

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