UPDATE (GRADED A+).
Environmental criminology can also be known as
spatial criminology
Environmental criminology focuses and considers
Criminal event, and considers the spatial distribution of crime, victimization, and offenders
The kind of crime environmental criminology focusses on and why
street crime, it is more visible and higher prosecution rates
the 4 environmental criminology series
Rational choice theory, geometric theory, routine activities theory, and pattern theory
classical theory of environmental crimes and how to control crime
people rationally calculated the consequences of their behavior, and the best way to control crime is by
setting a system of punishments to prevent crime
Rational Choice Theory is used for
used to understand the criminal events like property crime for immediate gain, because criminals
rationalize the risks and rewards of the crime
The four choices criminals make in the rational choice theory
1. whether or not to commit a crime
2. whether or not to pick a target
3. how to frequently commint crimes
4. whether or not to stop criminal acts
geometric theory focuses on
On geographic dimension of human activity patterns
And the geometric theory context, perceived opportunities for crime exist in
hotspots, egdes, nodes and paths
edges are
boundaries between districts
3 types of hotspots
crime generators, crime attractors, and crime enablers.
Routine activity theory believes that crime will only happen if