Do sports stadiums generate crime on days without matches? A natural experiment on the delayed exploitation of criminal opportunities KU Leuven Universiteit Gent
© 2018, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., part of Springer Nature. Crime pattern theory claims that busy places generate crime through immediate and delayed exploitation. In delayed exploitation, offenders notice criminal opportunities during opening hours but return to exploit them later. This study investigates delayed exploitation by testing whether soccer stadiums locally increase police-recorded property crime on non-game days. A soccer stadium ...