CRIM 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Environmental Criminology, Broken Windows Theory, Domestic Violence
28 Feb 2013
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Crime as social event , involving offenders, victims, bystanders and witnesses, the police and other participants in the criminal justice system. Examines the precursors, transaction and aftermaths of the criminal events. Examines the setting in which criminal events take place. Interwoven with routine activites theoy, lifesetyle exposure theory, and environmental criminology, All focus in routine activites , motivated offenders , criminal oppurtunityies. / suitable target , guardianship and situational crime prevention . Crimes as social events criminal event theory says crimes should be views as social event. Involving people interacting with each other, e. g. , offender, victims, bystanders, witnesses, criminal justice personnel. Referred to as event (or episodes) because they have a beginning and an end . Most offenders are young males, (more than 75% in some categories), aged. 15-24 age group represented only 14% of the population in 2004, while accounting for 42% of violent crime reports and 32% of property crime.
