SOCI 388 Chapter Notes - Chapter Cohen: Shoplifting, Relative Risk, Theoretical Ecology
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If controls through routine activities were to decrease, illegal predatory activities could then be likely to increase. Microlevel assumptions of the routine activity approach: the theoretical approach taken here specifies that crime rate trends in the post. Wwii us are related to patterns of routine activities: which are recurrent and prevalent activities which provide for basic pop and ind needs. Circumstances and location of offenses: the routine activity approach specifies that household and family activities entails lower risk of criminal victimization than nonhousehold-nonfamily activities. Trends in human activity patterns: the decade 1960-1970 experienced noteworthy tends in the activities of the. Increase in female college: married female labor force ps rates increased, pop living as primary ind increased, the proportion of households unattended at 8 a. m. increased by almost half b/w 1960-1970. Increase in rates of out-of-town travel: longer vacation time. I(cid:374)crease i(cid:374) o(cid:448)erseas tra(cid:448)ellers : dispersion of activities away from households = major recent social change.
