CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Urban Ecology, Human Ecology, Environmental Criminology

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 101
• Professor: Barry Cartwright

Document Summary

Associated with the thinking of patricia and paul. Brantingham, and their 1984 book, patterns in crime and felson in their 1979 article on routine activity thinking, is also associated wit the thinking of patricia/paul brantingham. Routine activity theory, environmental crim, crime pattern theory and criminal event theory are generally regarded as. The term (cid:498)the criminal event,(cid:499) although first coined by cohen (cid:498)complementary approaches(cid:499) to the phenomenon on crime. They share many of the same features,e. g. , (cid:498)routine activities(cid:499), (cid:498)motivated offenders(cid:499), (cid:498)criminal oppurtunities(cid:499), (cid:498)guardianship(cid:499), and (cid:498)situational crime prevention(cid:499) Cohen/felson say you need 3 main ingredients to generate a predatory crime event: a motivated offender, a suitable target, absence of capable guardianship. Although relatively simple and straightforward, routine activity theory is (cid:498)remarkably flexible and robust(cid:499) As the brantinghams point out in their (cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:891)3 article on (cid:498)nodes, Paths, and edges(cid:499), the idea that the physical environment.