Sociology 2140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Routine Activity Theory, Transnational Crime, Edwin Sutherland
24 Nov 2016
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Transnational crime: criminal activity that occurs across one or more international borders, it can include movement of exploitative images and text via the internet. Child pornography and sex trafficking are also major problems: the majority of the those trafficked are commercially exploited in the sex trade, others are trafficked into sexual servitude, forced labour, and into use as child soldiers. Crime: the violation of norms that are written into law the offender must have acted voluntarily and with intent and have no legally acceptable excuse or justification for the behavior. Crime surveys tell us about the impact of crime on some victims, but don"t supply much in the way of strategies for crime prevention. Routine activity theory: a view that for crimes to occur against people, certain conditions must exist. In particular, three conditions increase the opportunity for a crime to occur a motivated offender, a suitable target, and lack of capable guardianship of a target.
