Proposition | Data extracted |
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1. Offenders are involved in other crimes as well as ICST | Criminal histories |
2. Offenders’ everyday activities facilitate access to suitable co-offenders, potential victims and appropriate crime facilitators | Age at first ICST-type offence Ethnicity and nationality Marital status Living circumstances Employment status Presence and nature of links between offenders Offender-based rates of co-offending (as defined by Reiss 1988) |
3. Victims’ everyday activities help explain their availability, attractiveness and vulnerability to offenders | Age at first ICST-type victimisation Ethnicity and nationality Living circumstances Other background information Presence and nature of links between victims Modes of recruitment Inducements received |
4. Better-connected offenders tend to commit more offences | Offenders’ degree scores (obtained already via social network analysis of the offender networks) Number of contact offences Levels of offending |
5. Abuse occurs at locations lacking supervision and familiar to offenders from their everyday lives | Nature of locations where offenders abused their victims Precautions taken by offenders to evade detection |