Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law

Patrick McClanahan, Ph.D.

Visiting scholar

Criminology
+49 761 7081-228

w.mcclanahan@csl.mpg.de

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To learn more about me and my past roles and experiences, please get in touch or view my about me section.

Project

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virtual reality/neighborhood, street with houses and front yards

Head of project: Jean-Louis van Gelder
The Virtual Burglary Project is a research program co-headed by Prof. Claire Nee (University of Portsmouth) and involves a collaboration with researchers from Leiden University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The Virtual Burglary Project uses a VR approach to better understand the behavior of residential burglars and to contribute to crime… more

Podcast

The Virtual Burglary Project: Using VR to study crime in American prisons – Part 1

Guest: Patrick McClanahan • 05/2023
In this episode Christopher Murphy talks with Patrick McClanahan about late-stage results from the Virtual Burglary Project. The challenges involved in conducting field work in prisons will also be broached, with Patrick providing some personal reflections about what worked well, what could have been done better, and ideas and lessons for the future. This is part one of a double episode.