CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Routine Activity Theory, Victimology, Bad Hindelang
19 Mar 2016
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Life-style exposure, opportunity and routine activities theory evolved in the 1970"s, when victimization surveys started to gain in popularity. Victimization surveys tried to igure out who was being victimized, who was doing the victimization, what kind of victimization was involved, what the relationship was between and where and when did it take place, how often it occurred. Also a time when crime rates were rising dramatically, and victims were demanding the government take action to protect. Victimology, opportunity theory, lifestyle exposure theory, routine activities theory and rational choice theory are quite similar. All tend to view criminal event in terms of time-space continuum ( or environmental backcloth), and examine ways in which ofenders and victims intersect in time and space, in the absence of a capable guardian. Introduced in 1978, by hindelang, gottfredson and garofalo. Same gottfredson who co-authored a general theory. Of crime with travis hirschi-crime casued by low self control.
