Offender Mobility and Crime Pattern Formation from First Principles

Foraging theory is the domain of ecology that seeks to model how organisms deploy alternative behavioral strategies to bring themselves into contact with the resources that they need for survival. For stationary organisms such as plants or sessile animals, foraging might mean attempting to establish and control a spatial position within the environment that ensures at least a minimum flow of nutrients past that location. For mobile animals such as large mammalian herbivores or carnivores seeking stationary or mobile prey, foraging may mean developing movement routines that ensure a certain rate of encounter and return from prey items. In exactly aBSTracT