The problem of the hypostatization of crime has been most acute in ecological analyses as they almost necessarily demand the use of offi- cial crime statistics to delineate the distinct real- ity. crime. The development ofa behavioral dimension to the geography of crime has done little. however. to alter this general tendency. Though studies of spatial criminal behavior have been hailed as providing a better integration of behavioral and ecological approaches (Carter and Hill I980). both approaches involve the same general philosophical orientation.