Poverty, which is defined as low income or material resources, can be considered as narrower in scope than deprivation. Deprivation is a difficult concept to define. It involves anything from poverty to inequality. Deprivation overlaps, but is not the synonymous with, poverty (Carstairs and Morris, 1991). However, deprivation is narrower than both social exclusion and inequality (Senior, 2002). When people face difficult situations, they may have greater propensities to commit crime. It has been found in many studies that deprivation has a high correlation with crime. Ratcliffe and McCullagh (2001) explored the relationship between repeat victimisation and deprivation using GIS techniques. They found that burglary increases
linearly with increasing household deprivation.