"Systematic Social Observation"

Measuring Disorder: Observer Bias in Systematic Social Observations at Streets and Neighborhoods

Objectives: The present study focuses on Systematic Social Observation (SSO) as a method to investigate physical and social disorder at different units of analysis. The study contributes to the aggregation bias debate and to the ‘social science of …

Residential burglary target selection: An analysis at the property-level using Google Street View

Objectives: To quantitatively test findings from offender-based literature—primarily consisting of small-sample interviews or experimental scenarios with convicted burglars—to investigate the extent to which the physical attributes of residential …