CRIM 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Routine Activity Theory, Environmental Criminology, Crime Prevention
18 Jan 2018
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Routine activity theory: motivation exists, crime template, marcus felson. Pattern theory is commonalities between these perspectives: a recognizable interconnectedness of objects, processes, or ideas, crimes are not random or uniform, space matters, environmental backcloth changes over time, routine activity. Broader search want to commit a crime. Secondary how to deal with problem, intervention. Tertiary reactive, immediate, already has a problem, needs to fix it. (cid:862)high roads, railways, and tramways disperse predatory bands in rural districts, just as wide streets and large and airy dwellings, with public lighting and the destruction of slums prevent robbery with violence, concealment of stolen goods, and indecent assaults(cid:863) Has appeared in different disciplines from time to time. Bad housing bad behavior: poor people with bad housing will act poorly. The death and life of great american cities. Environments can be changed to make non-criminal behavior the fittest adaptation.
