dc.contributor.author	Varney, Kristen E.
dc.coverage.spatial	United States--Georgia--Valdosta	en_US
dc.coverage.temporal	2010-2016	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2017-04-14T14:04:44Z
dc.date.available	2017-04-14T14:04:44Z
dc.date.issued	2016-12
dc.identifier.other	A9212D12-7F5C-7697-43D4-6DB9DA2C7275	UUID
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10428/2660
dc.description.abstract	Crime has four aspects: an offender, a victim, a law that is broken, and a place where the crime occurs (Brantingham & Brantingham, 1991). This research will look at this fourth aspect to determine what environmental features, if any, affect residential burglaries. It's not about why people commit burglaries, but why offenders choose the targets they do. Rather than focusing on the biological or social reasoning behind an individual's criminal behavior, environmental criminology instead focuses on the locations in which crime occurs. The goal is to find significant patterns in crime locations and look for environmental features that may help explain the increased criminogenic activity. In this particular research, which utilizes a process called Risk Terrain Modeling to assess burglaries in Valdosta, Georgia, these identified environmental risk features are weighted and a map of places at risk for burglary is created that can then aid police officers and city planners in allocating resources in a cost-efficient manner and possibly developing preventative measures.	en_US
dc.description.tableofcontents	Chapter I: INTRODUCTION 1 Surveys of Burglars 2 Risk Terrain Modeling 5 Chapter II: LITERATURE REVIEW 8 Identifying Risk Factors from Previous RTM Studies 9 Weighting Risk Models 10 Chapter III: METHODOLOGY 13 Chapter IV: RESULTS 16 Modeling Burglaries in Valdosta 16 Testing the Model 21 Chapter V: DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION 25 REFERENCES 28 APPENDIX A: Institutional Review Board Exemption 32	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	Mobile geographic information systems	en_US
dc.subject	Risk Terrain Modeling	en_US
dc.subject	Risk assessment	en_US
dc.subject	Crime--Analysis	en_US
dc.subject	Criminal justice, Administration of--United States--Georgia	en_US
dc.subject	Criminology	en_US
dc.subject	Burglary	en_US
dc.title	A Risk Terrain Model of Residential Burglaries in Valdosta, Georgia	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice of the College of the Arts and Sciences	en_US
dc.description.advisor	Wilfred, Shani
dc.description.committee	Knowles, Fred
dc.description.committee	Vincent, Paul
dc.description.degree	M.S.	en_US
dc.description.major	Criminal Justice	en_US