In order to explain how crimes are carried out, and why at a particular place and time and against a specific target, crime studies increasingly harness theory from behavioural ecology, in particular Optimal Foraging Theory (OFT). However, an overview of their main findings does not exist. Given the growing focus on OFT as a behavioural framework for structuring crime research, in this article we review the extant OFT-inspired empirical crime research. Systematic search in Google Scholar and Web of Science yielded 32 crime studies, which were grouped into four categories according to their research topic. Empirical results largely support predictions made by OFT. However, there remains much potential for future OFT applications to crime research, in particular regarding the theoretical foundation of OFT in criminology, and through the application of contemporary extensions to OFT using specific tools developed for the study of animal foraging decisions.

为了解释犯罪是如何实施的，以及为什么在特定地点和时间针对特定目标，犯罪研究越来越多地利用行为生态学的理论，特别是最佳觅食理论（OFT）。然而，他们的主要发现的概述并不存在。鉴于人们越来越多地关注 OFT 作为构建犯罪研究的行为框架，在本文中，我们回顾了现存的受 OFT 启发的实证犯罪研究。Google Scholar 和 Web of Science 中的系统搜索产生了 32 项犯罪研究，根据研究主题分为四类。实证结果在很大程度上支持了 OFT 的预测。然而，未来 OFT 在犯罪研究中的应用仍有很大的潜力，特别是关于 OFT 在犯罪学中的理论基础，