Crime Opportunity Theories

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Contents: Introduction Part I Theorizing Situational Determinants of Crime: Delinquency, environment and intervention, R.V.G. Clark The situational analysis of crime and deviance, Christopher Birkbeck and Gary LaFree Routine activities and individual deviant behavior, Wayne D. Osgood, Janet. K. Wilson, Patrick M. Oa (TM)Malley, Jerald G. Bachman and Lloyd D. Johnston. Part II The Production of Criminal Opportunities: Routine Activity Theory: Human ecology and crime: a routine activity approach, Marcus Felson and Lawrence E. Cohen Routine activities and crime prevention in the developing metropolis, Marcus Felson Routine activities and involvement in violence as actor, witness, or target, Richard B. Felson The demand and supply of criminal opportunities, Philip J. Cook. Part III Deciding to Commit Crime: the Rational Choice Perspective: Modeling offenders' decisions: a framework for research and policy, Ronald V. Clarke and Derek B. Cornish Understanding crime displacement: an application of rational choice theory, Derek B. Cornish and Ronald V. Clarke A descriptive model of the hunting process of serial sex offenders: a rational choice perspective, Eric Beauregard, D. Kim Rossmo and Jean Proulx Serendipity in robbery target selection, Bruce A. Jacobs Organized fraud and organizing frauds: unpacking research on networks and organization, Michael Levi Parameters for software piracy research, Clyde W. Holsapple, Deepak Iyengar, Haihao Jin and Shashank Rao. Part IV 'Bounded' Rational Choice: Good Enough or Not Enough: Rational choice, deterrence, and social learning theory in criminology: the path not taken, Ronald L. Akers Situational crime prevention and its discontents: rational choice theory versus the 'culture of now', Keith Hayward Situational crime prevention and its discontents: rational choice and harm reduction versus 'cultural criminology', Graham Farrell Karl Popper: a philosopher for Ronald Clarke's situational crime prevention, Nick Tilley. Part V Variants Beyond Rational Choice and Routine Activity: Activity fields and the dynamics of crime: advancing knowledge about the role of the environment in crime causation, Per-Olof H. WikstrA m, Vania Ceccato, Beth Hardie and Kyle Treiber A classification of techniques for controlling situational precipitators of crime, Richard Wortley Going equipped: criminology, situational crime prevention and the resourceful offender, Paul Ekblom and Nick Tilley. Part VI Implications for Crime Prevention: Situational crime prevention: theory and practice, R.V.G. Clarke Routine activities and crime prevention: armchair concepts and practical action, Marcus Felson Minimising corruption: applying lessons from the crime prevention literature, Angela Gorta Subway slugs: tracking displacement on the London Underground, Ronald V. Clarke, Ronald P. Cody and Mangai Natarajan Assessing the extent of crime displacement and diffusion of benefits: a review of situational crime prevention evaluations, Rob T. Guerette and Kate J. Bowers Name index.