Offenders' Choice of Target: Findings from Victim Surveys.

This paper argues that victimological research on risks can contribute to the study of offender decision-making. It examines some of the problems in conventional approaches to the topic and discusses strengths and weaknesses of surveys of victimization as an additional source of information. It presents and discusses a conceptual framework for examining target selection, the key elements of which are proximity, yield, and accessibility. It presents a "worked example" in the shape of findings on burglary from the British Crime Survey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]