There is an article from the journal, “Criminal Justice and Behavior,” that begins to dive into a more specific segment of my research topic.  I am interested in researching crime and geography relationships and the article, “Linking different types of crime using geographical and temporal proximity,” does a good job of beginning to pull apart my research project using a more specific study. Basically what that means in lay persons’ terms is that the study is trying to analyze if there is a relationship between the type of crime that was committed, where and how far apart they are committed, and how long in between each crime. The number of days of time between each crime is the temporal proximity. The study also focused on specific types of crime. These types were violent, sexual, and property related crimes. The research question presented for this study is, is it possible to link different types of crime using simple aspects of offender behavior? The type of data elicited by this research question is reports of acts, behavior, or events because the researching is finding out what crimes people committed when and where. They did indeed find a relationship between these things in the research that they produced. While this study is a good one to beginning to narrow down such a broad topic of criminal behavior, it at the same time is a little messy. What I mean by messy is that it still leaves room to specify even more and focus the research a little harder. It allows for further research into the topic which is discussed and suggested at the end of the article.

Bond, John., Bull, Ray., Palmer, Emma., Tonkin, Matthew., Woodhams, Jessica. “Linking          Different Types   of Crime Using Geographical and Temporal Proximity.” Criminal Justice      and Behavior. vol.38,  no.11 (2011) November. 1069-1085.