CRM/LAW C162 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Market (Place), Mainframe Computer, Pattern Theory
25 Apr 2018
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Data & methodology: main data analyzed: british crime survey (bcs) Conclusion: communities characterized by sparse friendship network, unsupervised teenage peer groups, and low organizational participation had disproportionately high rates of crime/delinquency, community structural characteristics, low ses, residential mobility, ethnic heterogeneity, family disruption. Hot spots of predatory crime: routine activities and the criminology of place. Data collection: minneapolis system can only store ~7,000 call records on line, calls are removed form the mainframe computer or stored on tape, total of 323,979 call records were copied. Displacement: a routine activities criminology of place hypothesizes that crime cannot be displaced merely by displacing motivated offenders, the offenders must also be displaced to other places with suitable targets and weak guardianship. Factors associated with the guardianship of places: assessing the relative importance of the spatio- Physical and sociodemographic contexts in generating opportunities for capable guardianship.
