Book Review: Extending Offender Mobility
| Author | Georgios A. Antonopoulos |
| Published date | 01 December 2012 |
| Date | 01 December 2012 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1350/ijps.2012.14.4.294 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
International Journal of Police Science & Management Volume 14 Number 4
Book review
Extending Offender Mobility
By Stijn Van Daele
(IRCP series No. 43; Antwerp: Maklu; 150 pp.; ISBN 978-90-466-0514-1)
Extending Offender Mobility (2012) investig-
higher mobility are examined. What Van
ates mobile offenders through the case
Daele does in this chapter is to isolate the
study of itinerant crime groups, a phenom-
mobility variable from the examination of
enon that has received relatively little
these groups and, in this way, accounts
academic attention, and attempts to high-
about their diverse and heterogeneous
light and understand the nature and mech-
organisation and structures, and criminal
anisms pertaining to large criminal mobility.
repertoires emerge. Here, the author also
The book consists of nine chapters, which
offers a typology of itinerant crime groups.
are only rudimentarily presented here, and
In Chapter Six, the mobility patterns and
an ‘afterword’. In Chapter One, Van Daele
distance decay curves in serious property
offers an introduction to environmental
crimes in Belgium are examined by the
criminology, the basic principles of offender
author, adopting a quantitative approach,
mobility, and some historical examples of
whereas Chapter Seven, in which a qual-
mobile criminals, such as the Dacoities in
itative approach is taken, focuses on mobil-
India and the 18th century ‘Goat Riders’ in
ity patterns, and particular attention is paid
parts of Belgium and the Netherlands.
to the anchor points of itinerant crime
Chapter Two deals with the concept of
groups. In Chapter Eight, outbound
‘itinerant crime groups’, and the methods
offending, ie, offending that starts in the
and data used. The study is based on a
city (in the current study, Brussels) with a
harmonious amalgamation of three sets of
target outside the city, is dealt with and, in
data: (1) police statistics on serious property
Chapter Nine, Van Daele applies a number
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