Roots
Principles
Propositions
Criticisms
100

Routine activity builds off of this group of theories. 

What are deterrence?

100

The type of offender that routine activity theory assumes is always present. 

What is motivated?

100

The initial cause of crime, according to crime pattern and targeted search theories. 

What are inherent motivations to pursue pleasure?

100

Routine activity theory has been criticized for assume this about people. 

What is motivated to offend?

200

Crime pattern and targeted search theories extend routine activity theory by focusing on this from offenders. 

What are routine activities?

200

In crime pattern theory, traveling systems that connect different nodes.

What are paths?

200

Increases in this cause crime, according to routine activity theory. 

What are suitable targets?

200

Critics of routine activity have argued that situational crime prevention policies do this to crime. 

What is displace?

300

This type of policing strategy is influenced by routine activity theory. 

What is situational (environmental) policing?

300

Routine activity theory argues that the absence of this proficient protector must exist for a crime to occur.  

What is capable guardian?

300

Crime pattern and targeted search theories attempt to predict this occurrence, as opposed to criminality. 

What is the criminal event?

300

Crime pattern and targeted search theories have been criticized for focusing too much on this. 

What is the criminal event?

400

In 1979, Cohen and Felson developed routine activity theory in response to this pattern. 

What is rising crime?

400
Crime pattern theory argues that potential offenders create these mental charts, based on experiences with people and places in activity spaces.

What are cognitive maps?

400

This caused opportunities to engage in crime to increase throughout the 1960s and 1970s, according to routine activity theory. 

What is modernization?

400

Routine activity theory has been criticized for not attempting to explain variation in this. 

What are motivations for crime?

500

These married criminologists developed crime pattern and targeted search theories. 

Who are Brantingham and Brantingham?

500

The target search where a specific crime is intended, but there is no intended target. 

What is purposive?

500

According to targeted search theory, routine activities of offenders lead directly to this. 

What are criminal opportunities or targeted searches?

500

Critics have argued that crime pattern and targeted search theories should focus more on this. 

What is explaining criminality?

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