This is not to suggest that the move away from ecolog- ical perspectives is not useful: it does allow a number of entirely different types of question about spatial "criminal" behavior to be asked. But the behavioral approach is still restricted to posing questions within a framework that relies on official crime statistics to designate “crimi- nals.” and criminals are implicitly treated as being quite different from other people. An example ofthis tendency is the literature on the "journey to crime" te.g.. Phillips I980). Here again. the act of crime is hypostatized to the extent that it is treated as a distinct behavior.