CRM/LAW C162 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: City Block, Time Lock, Closed-Circuit Television
6 Apr 2017
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A general model of the geography of illicit retail marketplaces (eck: we see short frames a week or months of variance of hotspots over time. Routine activities that attract people from long distances: soft targets are vulnerable, not supposed to be where there are perfect victims attract offenders, when victimized they cannot cooperate fully with the police (low risk, high payoff) Illicit (legal: you"re goi(cid:374)g to this (cid:373)arket pla(cid:272)e to buy illegal things. This person will get a prescription for suboxone and sell it at 10 times. Sellers dilemma- to get as many customers as possible (means contacting customers) Buyers dilemma is getting good product at low price anything seller does to maintain large pool of customers poses risk (wants access of product) all things buyer does to ensure that creates risk of arrest. Buyer- it is a dangerous place to go (to get variety)- risk being arrested. Seller- accessibility/visibility guarantees buyers but also increases risk.
