Burglar Decision Making and Target Selection - An Assessment of Residential Vulnerability to Burglary, in the Korean Context

Burglar Decision Making and Target Selection

  This study assesses the theoretical consistency and empirical validity of the environmental approach in relation to residential burglary in the Republic of Korea. A purposive sampling method was used to select the fifty-two burglar subjects interviewed. The majority of the subjects came from the Incheon Metropolitan City area. A central focus of the study was the subjects’ target-selection methodology, and in the study interviews they were queried as to how they went about identifying a suitable residential target for burglary. Special attention was given to the extent to which the subjects in the study sample utilised rational processes to select a potential burglary target, and what situational conditions and features they used as discriminative cues in this target-selection process.