CRIM 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Routine Activity Theory, Ecological Stability, Burglary

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 352
• Professor: Martin Andresen

Document Summary

One of the empirical regularities in criminology: no matter who does the research, things are going to repeat over and over again. On par with: ecological stability males are more violent, and the age-crime curve: crime hot spots, young males, adolescent limited trajectory in developmental life course. Geometry of crime: we have already optimized our activity space. Rational choice: we are lazy, found the best pathway, taking the short way. Routine activity theory: we have already optimized our routines. School, the bar, friends house: crime data collect where you live, friday, saturday nights journey may start from the bar. The distance to crime is short: the journey to violent crime is shorter than property crime. But if we use terms like average: we assume variability within each individual, assume distance is always the same. Nesting effects (cid:862)over-sampling(cid:863) of o(cid:374)e group ge(cid:374)erates aggregate (cid:271)ehavior. Similar to the issue on the previous slide.