ABSTRACT
This chapter reports the results of a study of how a sample of burglars recently released from prison in Melbourne, Victoria in the late 1990s went about their business. Specifically, the focus was how these offenders selected and processed information about potential houses to break into using a series of case studies or scenarios presented on a computer screen, each scenario containing information on a range of cues which were features of the house or street that burglars in a previous study had reported were important in target selection (Macintyre, 2001).
