A person's activity space consists of locations in everyday life, for example home, work, school, shopping areas, entertainment areas etc.
Personal paths connect with various nodes creating a perimeter.
For example, a victim could enter an offender's awareness space by way of a liquor store parking lot or a new shopping center being built.
If the shopping center is being built in an area where crime occurs a couple of miles away, chances are it will exist in some if not all offender's awareness space.
This theory aids law enforcement in figuring out why crime exists in certain areas.