Spatial decision-making by robbers
20 September 2005

Dr Karen Shalev, lecturer at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Portsmouth, discussed the strategies property offenders use in their spatial decision-making at the 2005 IBP Focus on Robbery™ Symposium.

The data was gathered by conducting interviews with incarcerated property offenders in prisons across the northwest of England. The discussion offered a new perspective in understanding offenders’ spatial behaviour.

		Karen presenting at the 2005 IBP Focus on Robbery™ Symposium
Dr Karen Shalev – a short biography: Dr Karen Shalev is a lecturer at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Portsmouth. She graduated with BA in Criminology and English Literature from Bar Ilan University, Israel in 1997. She then graduated with an MSc in Investigative Psychology at the University of Liverpool in 1999 and with a PhD in Investigative Psychology in 2004. Her research focuses on studying the relationship between the ways offenders perceive their environment and their offence location choice; identifying patterns of offenders’ spatial behaviour; and on gaining knowledge about offenders’ choices by interviewing them.

Visit the Focus on Robbery™ section of this site for information on all the topics covered by the 2005 Symposium.

For more information about the Focus on Robbery Partnership, email the IBP team, or call +44 (0)1428 641399.