CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Criminal Type, Edwin Sutherland, Shoplifting
12 Sep 2016
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Important to understand how victim"s own behaviour. Life-style exposure, opportunity and routine activities theory evolved in the 1970"s when victimization surveys started to gain in popularity. Also a time when crime rates were rising dramatically, and victims were demanding the government take action to protect them. Victimology, opportunity theory, lifestyle exposure theory, routine activities theory and 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 offenders 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. Lifestyles of individuals and groups follow certain patterns. Eg where they go, when they go there, who they go with ( or who they meet there), what they do when they get there.
