CCJ 3014 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Search Theory, Routine Activity Theory, Environmental Design
24 Jul 2018
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They choose crimes that offer immediate gratification, that require little effort to complete, and that expose them to scant risk of detection and arrest. Marcus felson and lawrence cohen developed routine activities theory. For them, decrease opportunities for offending and crime will be reduced. The study of the routines of potential offenders and how they select their targets to victimize. Offenders develop cognitive maps and mental templates and offend in places that are familiar to them. Increase the effort needed to commit a crime. Increase the risks of attempting to commit a crime. Routine activity theory forgoes any thoughts of how steps might be taken to change the criminality or motivations of lawbreakers. The key to stopping crime is to prevent the intersection in time and space of offenders and targets that lack guardianship. Felson argued blocking opportunities can be heightened through three strategies: natural strategies, organized strategies, mechanical strategies.
