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  1. The Topology of Cyberspace and Cybercrime Journeys: A Framework for Analyzing Online Offender Mobility

    Article • November 2025, Center for Open Science

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  2. Beyond the Borders of the Residential Neighborhood: Unstructured Socializing, Collective Efficacy, and Adolescent Delinquency

    Article • Justice Quarterly, September 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  3. The Topology of Cyberspace and Cybercrime Journeys: A Framework for Analyzing Online Offender Mobility

    Article • September 2025, Center for Open Science

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  4. Target Choices of Inner-City Illegal Taggers Demonstrate Consistency and Specificity

    Article • Deviant Behavior, July 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  5. Attitudes and barriers to open science practices: a mixed-methods analysis at a criminological research institute

    Article • June 2025, Center for Open Science

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  6. Prioritising suspects using their activity locations

    Article • June 2025, PubPub

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  7. Association Between Social Distancing Compliance and Public Place Crowding During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-Sectional Observational Study Using Computer Vision to Analyze Surveillance Footage

    Article • JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, April 2025, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  8. Graffiti Writers Choose Locations That Optimize Exposure

    Article • Crime & Delinquency, October 2024, SAGE Publications

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  9. Consolation in the aftermath of violent public assaults: An interaction ethological study

    Article • Culture and Evolution, May 2024, Akademiai Kiado

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  10. The Anticipatory, Short-Term, and Long-Term Effects of Parental Separation and Parental Death on Adolescent Delinquency

    Article • Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, April 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  11. Familiar Locations and Similar Activities: Examining the Contributions of Reliable and Relevant Knowledge in Offenders’ Crime Location Choices

    Article • April 2024, PubPub

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  12. Familiar Locations and Similar Activities: Examining the Contributions of Reliable and Relevant Knowledge in Offenders’ Crime Location Choices

    Article • International Criminal Justice Review, April 2024, SAGE Publications

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  13. Crowding as a Reliable and Scalable Predictor of Social Distancing Compliance: Exploring the Benefits of Surveillance Footage and Computer Vision (Preprint)

    Article • July 2023, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  14. Relationships Between Offenders’ Crime Locations and Different Prior Activity Locations as Recorded in Police Data

    Article • Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, August 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  15. Relationships Between Offenders’ Crime Locations and Different Prior Activity Locations as Recorded in Police Data

    Article • August 2022, PubPub

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  16. Promise Into Practice: Application of Computer Vision in Empirical Research on Social Distancing

    Article • Sociological Methods & Research, May 2022, SAGE Publications

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  17. How to stop a fight—A qualitative video analysis of how third-parties de-escalate real-life interpersonal conflicts in public.

    Article • Psychology of Violence, March 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Peter Ejbye-Ernst, Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard, Prof Wim Bernasco

  18. A new Geographic Profiling Suspect Mapping And Ranking Technique for crime investigations: GP‐SMART

    Article • Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, February 2022, Wiley

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  19. A new Geographic Profiling Suspect Mapping And Ranking Technique for crime investigations: GP-SMART

    Article • February 2022, PubPub

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  20. How to Stop a Fight - A Qualitative Video Analysis of How Third-parties De-escalate Real-life Interpersonal Conflicts in Public

    Article • January 2022, Center for Open Science

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  21. Residents, Employees and Visitors: Effects of Three Types of Ambient Population on Theft on Weekdays and Weekends in Beijing, China

    Article • Journal of Quantitative Criminology, December 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  22. Single-Parent Families and Adolescent Crime: Unpacking the Role of Parental Separation, Parental Decease, and Being Born to a Single-Parent Family

    Article • Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, December 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  23. Promise Into Practice: Application of Computer Vision in Empirical Research on Social Distancing

    Article • September 2021, Center for Open Science

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  24. Does Danger Level Affect Bystander Intervention in Real-Life Conflicts? Evidence From CCTV Footage

    Article • Social Psychological and Personality Science, September 2021, SAGE Publications

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  25. The Importance of Importance Sampling: Exploring Methods of Sampling from Alternatives in Discrete Choice Models of Crime Location Choice

    Article • Journal of Quantitative Criminology, July 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  26. The Foraging Perspective in Criminology: A Review of Research Literature

    Article • June 2021, PubPub

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  27. The foraging perspective in criminology: A review of research literature

    Article • European Journal of Criminology, June 2021, SAGE Publications

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  28. Third Parties Mirror the Aggression of the Antagonists: A Video-Based Analysis of Third-Party Aggression in Interpersonal Conflicts

    Article • Journal of Interpersonal Violence, June 2021, SAGE Publications

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  29. Location Choice of Snatching Offenders in Chennai City

    Article • Journal of Quantitative Criminology, May 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  30. Retraction Note to: Do offenders avoid offending near home? A systematic review of the buffer zone hypothesis

    Article • Crime Science, April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  31. Social distancing compliance: A video observational analysis

    Article • PLOS One, March 2021, PLOS

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  32. A National Examination of the Spatial Extent and Similarity of Offenders’ Activity Spaces Using Police Data

    Article • ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, January 2021, MDPI AG

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  33. Are frequent offenders more difficult to find and less willing to participate? An analysis of unit non-response in an online survey among offenders

    Article • European Journal of Criminology, December 2020, SAGE Publications

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  34. A framework for estimating crime location choice based on awareness space

    Article • Crime Science, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  35. Nearby Neighbourhood Influences on Adolescent Offending

    Article • The British Journal of Criminology, October 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  36. A CCTV-based analysis of target selection by guardians intervening in interpersonal conflicts

    Article • European Journal of Criminology, October 2020, SAGE Publications

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  37. Forecasting Spatio-Temporal Variation in Residential Burglary with the Integrated Laplace Approximation Framework: Effects of Crime Generators, Street Networks, and Prior Crimes

    Article • Journal of Quantitative Criminology, August 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  38. Growing up in single-parent families and the criminal involvement of adolescents: a systematic review

    Article • Psychology Crime and Law, June 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  39. RETRACTED ARTICLE: Do offenders avoid offending near home? A systematic review of the buffer zone hypothesis

    Article • Crime Science, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  40. The Foraging Perspective in Criminology: A Review of Research Literature

    Article • October 2019, Center for Open Science

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  41. Situational Correlates of Adolescent Substance Use: An Improved Test of the Routine Activity Theory of Deviant Behavior

    Article • Journal of Quantitative Criminology, October 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  42. “Location, Location, Location”: Effects of Neighborhood and House Attributes on Burglars’ Target Selection

    Article • Journal of Quantitative Criminology, October 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  43. Where You at? Using GPS Locations in an Electronic Time Use Diary Study to Derive Functional Locations

    Article • Social Science Computer Review, September 2019, SAGE Publications

    Peter Lugtig, Prof Wim Bernasco

  44. Social relations and presence of others predict bystander intervention: Evidence from violent incidents captured on CCTV

    Article • Aggressive Behavior, July 2019, Wiley

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  45. The Influence of Activity Space and Visiting Frequency on Crime Location Choice: Findings from an Online Self-Report Survey

    Article • The British Journal of Criminology, June 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  46. Social relations and presence of others predict bystander intervention: Evidence from violent incidents captured on CCTV

    Article • June 2019, Center for Open Science

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  47. Would I be helped? Cross-national CCTV footage shows that intervention is the norm in public conflicts.

    Article • American Psychologist, June 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Richard Philpot, Prof Wim Bernasco

  48. Dissecting the Role of Dominance in Robberies: An Analysis and Implications for Microsociology of Violence

    Article • Journal of Interpersonal Violence, May 2019, SAGE Publications

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  49. Postprint - Would I be Helped? Cross-National CCTV Footage Shows That Intervention Is the Norm in Public Conflicts

    Article • March 2019, Center for Open Science

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  50. Crime Feeds on Legal Activities: Daily Mobility Flows Help to Explain Thieves’ Target Location Choices

    Article • Journal of Quantitative Criminology, February 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  51. Adolescent offenders' current whereabouts predict locations of their future crimes

    Article • PLOS One, January 2019, PLOS

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  52. Is travel actually risky? A study of situational causes of victimization

    Article • Crime Science, September 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  53. Cyber-Offending and Traditional Offending over the Life-Course: an Empirical Comparison

    Article • Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  54. Theft from the person in urban China: assessing the diurnal effects of opportunity and social ecology

    Article • Habitat International, August 2018, Elsevier

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  55. Do sports stadiums generate crime on days without matches? A natural experiment on the delayed exploitation of criminal opportunities

    Article • Security Journal, June 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  56. Determinants of reporting cybercrime: A comparison between identity theft, consumer fraud, and hacking

    Article • European Journal of Criminology, May 2018, SAGE Publications

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  57. Mobility and Location Choice of Offenders

    Article • February 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  58. Studying Situational Effects of Setting Characteristics

    Article • February 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  59. Testing Indicators of Risk Populations for Theft from the Person across Space and Time: The Significance of Mobility and Outdoor Activity

    Article • Annals of the American Association of Geographers, January 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  60. Patterns of Force, Sequences of Resistance: Revisiting Luckenbill with Robberies Caught on Camera

    Article • Deviant Behavior, January 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  61. Lessons Learned from Crime Caught on Camera

    Article • Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, January 2018, SAGE Publications

    Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard, Prof Wim Bernasco

  62. The geography of crime and crime control

    Article • Applied Geography, September 2017, Elsevier

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  63. Editors’ Introduction

    Article • June 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  64. Modeling Offender Decision Making with Secondary Data

    Article • June 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  65. The Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making

    Article • June 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  66. Consolation in the aftermath of robberies resembles post-aggression consolation in chimpanzees

    Article • PLOS One, May 2017, PLOS

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  67. The Routledge International Handbook of Life-Course Criminology

    Article • March 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  68. Comparing criminal careers across three national cohorts

    Article • March 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  69. Do Street Robbery Location Choices Vary Over Time of Day or Day of Week? A Test in Chicago

    Article • Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, March 2017, SAGE Publications

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  70. Social Interactions and Crime Revisited: An Investigation Using Individual Offender Data in Dutch Neighborhoods

    Article • The Review of Economics and Statistics, January 2017, The MIT Press

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  71. Criminaliteit relateren aan verblijfspopulaties

    Article • Tijdschrift voor Criminologie, December 2016, Boom Uitgevers Den Haag

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  72. Measuring short and rare activities – Time diaries in criminology

    Article • electronic International Journal of Time Use Research, November 2016, Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  73. Cross-border crime patterns unveiled by exchange of DNA profiles in the European Union

    Article • Security Journal, September 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  74. More Places than Crimes: Implications for Evaluating the Law of Crime Concentration at Place

    Article • Journal of Quantitative Criminology, September 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  75. Learning About Crime Prevention from Aborted Crimes: Intrapersonal Comparisons of Committed and Aborted Robbery

    Article • August 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  76. FAMILY MATTERS: EFFECTS OF FAMILY MEMBERS’ RESIDENTIAL AREAS ON CRIME LOCATION CHOICE*

    Article • Criminology, July 2016, Wiley

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  77. Where Do Dealers Solicit Customers and Sell Them Drugs? A Micro-Level Multiple Method Study

    Article • Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, October 2015, SAGE Publications

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  78. Target Selection Models with Preference Variation Between Offenders

    Article • Journal of Quantitative Criminology, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  79. Gender Differences in Delinquency and Situational Action Theory: A Partial Test

    Article • Justice Quarterly, July 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  80. Situational Action Theory: Cross-Sectional and Cross-Lagged Tests of Its Core Propositions

    Article • Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice/La Revue canadienne de criminologie et de justice pénale, July 2015, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  81. Learning where to offend: Effects of past on future burglary locations

    Article • Applied Geography, June 2015, Elsevier

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  82. BITING ONCE, TWICE: THE INFLUENCE OF PRIOR ON SUBSEQUENT CRIME LOCATION CHOICE

    Article • Criminology, April 2015, Wiley

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  83. The space-time budget method in criminological research

    Article • Crime Science, December 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  84. How Much Variance in Offending, Self-Control and Morality can be Explained by Neighbourhoods and Schools? An Exploratory Cross-Classified Multi-Level Analysis

    Article • European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, October 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  85. Crime Journeys

    Article • October 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  86. Testing the Situational Explanation of Victimization among Adolescents

    Article • Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, September 2014, SAGE Publications

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  87. Consequences of Expected and Observed Victim Resistance for Offender Violence during Robbery Events

    Article • Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, August 2014, SAGE Publications

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  88. Burglar Target Selection

    Article • Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, July 2014, SAGE Publications

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  89. Residential Burglary

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  90. Crime Location Choice

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  91. Affect and Cognition in Criminal Decision Making

    Article • November 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  92. SITUATIONAL CAUSES OF OFFENDING: A FIXED-EFFECTS ANALYSIS OF SPACE-TIME BUDGET DATA

    Article • Criminology, August 2013, Wiley

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  93. Adolescent delinquency and diversity in behavior settings

    Article • Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, July 2013, SAGE Publications

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  94. Social Disorganization, Social Capital, Collective Efficacy and the Spatial Distribution of Crime and Offenders: An Empirical Test of Six Neighbourhood Models for a Dutch City

    Article • The British Journal of Criminology, May 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  95. When Is Spending Time With Peers Related to Delinquency? The Importance of Where, What, and With Whom

    Article • Crime & Delinquency, March 2013, SAGE Publications

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  96. Are mobile offenders less likely to be caught? The influence of the geographical dispersion of serial offenders’ crime locations on their probability of arrest

    Article • European Journal of Criminology, January 2013, SAGE Publications

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  97. Offenders on Offending

    Article • January 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  98. Moral emotions and offending: Do feelings of anticipated shame and guilt mediate the effect of socialization on offending?

    Article • European Journal of Criminology, January 2013, SAGE Publications

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  99. Burglary

    Article • September 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  100. Exploring Directional Consistency in Offending: The Case of Residential Burglary in The Hague

    Article • Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, March 2012, Wiley

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  101. Go where the money is: modeling street robbers' location choices

    Article • Journal of Economic Geography, March 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  102. How Long Do Offenders Escape Arrest? Using DNA Traces to Analyse when Serial Offenders Are Caught

    Article • Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, January 2012, Wiley

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  103. Perceived sanction risk, individual propensity and adolescent offending: Assessing key findings from the deterrence literature in a Dutch sample

    Article • European Journal of Criminology, September 2011, SAGE Publications

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  104. Robberies in Chicago: A Block-Level Analysis of the Influence of Crime Generators, Crime Attractors, and Offender Anchor Points

    Article • Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, December 2010, SAGE Publications

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  105. The Spatial Concentration of Illegal Residence and Neighborhood Safety

    Article • Journal of Urban Affairs, August 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Wim Bernasco, Arjen Leerkes

  106. Effects of residential history on commercial robbers’ crime location choices

    Article • European Journal of Criminology, July 2010, SAGE Publications

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  107. A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY TO CRIME: EFFECTS OF RESIDENTIAL HISTORY ON CRIME LOCATION CHOICE*

    Article • Criminology, May 2010, Wiley

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  108. Modeling Micro-Level Crime Location Choice: Application of the Discrete Choice Framework to Crime at Places

    Article • Journal of Quantitative Criminology, December 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  109. Statistical Analysis of Spatial Crime Data

    Article • December 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  110. Finding a serial burglar's home using distance decay and conditional origin-destination patterns: a test of empirical Bayes journey-to-crime estimation in the Hague

    Article • Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, October 2009, Wiley

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  111. WHERE OFFENDERS CHOOSE TO ATTACK: A DISCRETE CHOICE MODEL OF ROBBERIES IN CHICAGO

    Article • Criminology, February 2009, Wiley

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  112. Putting Crime in its Place

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Wim Bernasco, David Weisburd

  113. Units of Analysis in Geographic Criminology: Historical Development, Critical Issues, and Open Questions

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  114. Them Again?

    Article • European Journal of Criminology, October 2008, SAGE Publications

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  115. Do Social Barriers Affect Urban Crime Trips? The Effects of Ethnic and Economic Neighbourhood Compositions on the Flow of Crime in The Hague, The Netherlands

    Article • Built Environment, April 2008, Alexandrine Press

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  116. Modelling Crime Flow between Neighbourhoods in Terms of Distance and of Intervening Opportunities

    Article • Crime Prevention and Community Safety, March 2008, Nature

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  117. Tegen de wetten van de staat, tegen de wetten van de straat?: illegaal verblijf en veiligheid in Nederlandse stadsbuurten

    Article • Sociologie, October 2007, Stichting Tijdschrift Sociologie

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  118. Space–Time Patterns of Risk: A Cross National Assessment of Residential Burglary Victimization

    Article • Journal of Quantitative Criminology, June 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  119. The usefulness of measuring spatial opportunity structures for tracking down offenders: A theoretical analysis of geographic offender profiling using simulation studies

    Article • Psychology Crime and Law, April 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  120. How Do Residential Burglars Select Target Areas?

    Article • The British Journal of Criminology, August 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  121. Criminal groups and transnational illegal markets

    Article • Crime Law and Social Change, February 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  122. EFFECTS OF ATTRACTIVENESS, OPPORTUNITY AND ACCESSIBILITY TO BURGLARS ON RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY RATES OF URBAN NEIGHBORHOODS

    Article • Criminology, August 2003, Wiley

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  123. Joint and Separated Lifestyles in Couple Relationships

    Article • Journal of Marriage and Family, August 2001, Wiley

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  124. Effects of Spouse's Resources on Occupational Attainment in the Netherlands

    Article • European Sociological Review, March 1998, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  125. Suicidal Behavior in Jails and Prisons in The Netherlands: Incidence, Characteristics, and Prevention

    Article • Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, June 1990, Wiley

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  126. Felson, Marcus K.: Crime and Nature

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  127. Units of Analysis in Geographic Criminology: Historical Development, Critical Issues and Open Questions

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  128. Social Interactions and Crime Revisited: An Investigation Using Individual Offender Data in Dutch Neighborhoods

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Prof Wim Bernasco

  129. Ethnic segregation and crime: are offenders ethnically biased when choosing target areas?

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Prof Wim Bernasco