2 Crime pattern theory
Criminologists can look at why crimes occur and both where and when they happen. Crime pattern theory looks at the geometry of where crime occurs, based around the notion of where crime activity takes place and how offenders travel through likely places for crime and develop knowledge of those locations.
Activity 2 Locations of crime
Reflect on your own known locations for crime or other police demand. Are there different locations dependent on the time of day?
Discussion
Most of this would be personal to your situation but there are some obvious night-time economy sources of demand (public order and violence) which will occur in specific locations.
This type of analysis helps us understand demand from a policing perspective. In the next section we see how we can take a management perspective to understanding demand.