title: Do Street Robbery Location Choices Vary Over Time of Day or Day of Week? A Test in Chicago.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This article examines the hypothesis that in street robbery location choices, the importance of location attributes is conditional on the time of day and on the day of the week.
  
  
  METHODS
  The hypothesis is assessed by estimating and comparing separate discrete location choice models for each two-hour time block of the day and for each day of the week. The spatial units of analysis are census blocks. Their relevant attributes include presence of various legal and illegal cash economies, presence of high schools, measures of accessibility, and distance from the offender's home.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The hypothesis is strongly rejected because for almost all census block attributes, their importance hardly depends on time of day or day of week. Only the effect of high schools in census blocks follows expectations, as its effect is only demonstrated at the times and on the days that schools are open.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results suggest that street robbers' location choices are not as strongly driven by spatial variations in immediate opportunities as has been suggested in previous studies. Rather, street robbers seem to perpetrate in the environs of cash economies and transit hubs most of the time irrespective of how many potential victims are around.
authors.affiliation: Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Department of Spatial Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Wim
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Bernasco
authors.affiliation: Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Department of Sociology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Stijn
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ruiter
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Block
keywords: Chicago; day of week; location choice; street robbery; time of day