CRIM 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Routine Activity Theory, Environmental Criminology, Human Ecology
7 Feb 2019
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Remarkably flexible and robust : as the brantinghams point out in their 1993 article on nodes, paths and. Crime is patterned not new and other parts of town where it is relatively safe. Paths: paths include road networks, walking paths, sidewalks, and transit routes. Criminals tend to commit their crimes near their normal paths : paths can take criminals to and from suitable targets they help the, criminal events and crime hot spots cluster near major roads, major. Edges: perceptual edges may occurs when there is a marked land use change, like going from the area in which the offender lives, into a totally different area that is strange and unfamiliar. The environmental backcloth: a term used by environemental criminologists patricia and paul. Brantingham, to describe the elements that surround the criminal event: the backcloth emits cues, telling a potential offender whether or not there is likely to be a suitable target.
