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The article presents a study aimed at addressing the lack of systematic replication studies in offender mobility and explores the generalizability of an offender target selection model in the Great Britain, the Netherlands and Australia. The study is based on a research conducted by Wim Bernasco and Paul Nieuwbeerta (B&N), "How Do Residential Burglars Select Target Areas? A New Approach to the Analysis of Criminal Location Choice," which appeared in the "British Journal of Criminilogy" in 2005.

The article presents the study on the common patterns of interpersonal victimization. It discusses how the study was conducted which involved controlled simulation experiments to assess three regularities of crime by various statistical techniques including repeat victimization and spatial clustering. The results reportedly supports beliefs of environmental criminology on why interpersonal victimization is usually spatially concentrated.