ABSTRACT
Similar to other social scientists, criminologists are interested in discovering fundamental and generalizable concepts that are basic to social relationships. One of the distinguishing features of social relationships is the ability of humans to interact over space. Geographers and regional scientists use the term spatial interaction to denote these flows over a study area (Haynes and Fotheringham 1984; Taylor 1975). Criminologists have adopted this concept to study the spatial movement of criminals in their search for a crime site (Brantingham and Brantingham 1984) and their transportation of illegal commodities (Rengert 1996). These criminal activities over space are considered special forms of a common social behavior – spatial interaction.
