Purpose Early criminological research has found that the frequency of crime is not consistent
throughout the year and that crime often peaks in the summer months. What has gone
largely understudied, however, is how the respective spatial patterns are impacted over
time. This study investigates whether seasonal variation exists temporally across different
property crime types and whether these same offences possess micro-spatial patterns that
vary substantially over the calendar year. Methods A series of Andresen's (2009) spatial …