SOC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Christmas Card, Twinkie Defense, Junk Food
Document Summary
Doesn"t work for explaining domestic violence because it says that you are safe in the home. Criminal offenses are related to the nature of everyday patterns of social interaction. Targets are suitable to the extent that offenders see them as having viva: Value - value more targets than others. Inertia - we steal things that are easier and lighter, we attack smaller people. Access - ability to get to the target and away from the scene of the crime, people com- mit crime in areas that they know because they are comfortable getting away. Patterns and changes in crime due to changes in targets and guardians transient, single parent neighborhoods. Cannot eliminate motivations to offend very easily, so focus on reducing opportunities. Target hardening - security measures, deadbolts, neighborhood watches - make entrance and exit from a crime scene more difficult. Increased presence of formal and informal guardians. Changing the physical in order to change perceptions.
