The problem is created by converting data from official crime reports into literal descrip- tions of reality in accordance with the hidden mandates of an instrumentalist method. The “journey to crime" has to be interpreted in its social context. because. as Brantingham and Brantingham caution. “[o]ne of the striking things about criminals. often forgotten. is that most ofthem behave as ordinary people most of the time“ (l98lb. 35). lt may thus be a mistake to focus simply on the criminal activities of "criminals" in order to understand their spatial behavior.