10.2190/DTHJ-ERNN-HVCV-6K5T DTHJERNNHVCV6K5T 7 Mobility, Notoriety, and Crime: A Study in the Crime Patterns of Urban Nodal Points 89 99 20020509 20020509 20020509 20020509 DTHJERNNHVCV6K5T.pdf http://baywood.metapress.com/link.asp?target=contribution&id=DTHJERNNHVCV6K5T 1 Patricia L. Brantingham Paul J. Brantingham Department of Criminology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia Crime has long been known to be spatially patterned at many levels of aggregation. Contemporary explanations of this fact within urban areas assume that it is the result of interactions between the physical distribution of opportunities for crime, transportation flow patterns, and the awareness spaces of potential criminals. Data from a small city in Western Canada are used to conduct a simple test of the plausibility of this theoretical assumption for the crime of commercial burglary. The assumption is generally supported by the data.

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