Residential Apartment Burglaries in Tallahassee Police Department Zone 7, Florida.

Abstract

Literature on burglaries provided little information on the environmental factors involved in apartment burglaries. The bulk of research has concentrated on house or commercial burglaries. Opportunity theory, social control theory, routine activities theory, rational choice theory, and limited rationality are the current environmental theories used to explain the causes of burglary (Hirschi, 1986; Cornish and Clarke, 1986; Mayhew, 1979; Cromwell et al, 1991). Exploratory research was conducted on apartment burglaries in Tallahassee, Florida's police designated "zone 7." Zone 7 inhabits some of the poorest residents of Tallahassee and a large portion of the students who attend Florida State University. Research was gathered on all the apartment complexes which resided within zone 7 and had at least twenty five apartments, creating a sample of 39 apartment complexes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 09, 1994
Accession Number
ADA289772

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  • Christine H. Ashenfelter

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  • Air Force Institute of Technology

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  • Human Systems

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  • Bivariate Analysis
  • Control Theory
  • Crime
  • Criminal Justice System
  • Criminals
  • Criminology
  • Data Analysis
  • Families (Human)
  • High Density
  • Human Behavior
  • New York
  • Psychology
  • Recreation
  • Security
  • Social Sciences
  • Statistics
  • Students

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