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Ambient Opportunity
Antisocial Behavior
Author_Kenneth Land
Author_Pamela Wilcox
Author_Scott A. Hunt
Category=JKVC
Cognitive Risk Perception
Constrained Behavior
contextual crime causation research
crime prevention policy
Crime Risk Perception
Criminal Acts Increases
Criminal Opportunity
Criminal Opportunity Theory
criminological theory
Cross-level Interaction Effects
Dynamic Multicontextual Criminal Opportunity Theory
empirical crime analysis
environmental criminology
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Individual Level Exposure
Individual Level Opportunity
Individual Level Target
Kenneth C. Land
motivated
Motivated Offender Exposure
Motivated Offenders
Multicontextual Criminal Opportunity Theory
Multilevel Criminal Opportunity Theory
Negatively Related
Neighborhood Level Characteristics
Neighborhood Violent Crime
opportunity
Pamela Wilcox
Precautionary Behavior
Routine Activities Theory
Scott A. Hunt
situational crime prevention
social control mechanisms
Social Disorganization Theory
Target Antagonism
Target Gratifiability
theory
Product details
- ISBN 9780202307206
- Weight: 650g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The main objective of this book is to propose an alternative criminal opportunity theory. The authors build upon social control and routine activities to develop a dynamic, multi-contextual criminal opportunity theory. Emphasizing the importance of contextual explanations of criminal acts, they propose two levels of analysis: individual and environmental. At each level, the theory pivots on three broad organizing constructs--offenders motivated to commit criminal acts, targets such as persons or property suitable as objects of criminal acts, and the presence or absence of individuals or other defensive mechanisms capable of serving as guardians against criminal acts. Crime is profoundly real, possessing qualities that make its occurrence and prevention pressing and persistent matters for individuals and societies. Theory, in contrast, is seen as highly abstract and removed from the seriousness of "real life." Theory almost seems to be a peculiar sport of an academic class. The practically minded, even some academic criminologists, are often perplexed by the seeming obsession some scholars have with theory, which, after all, is nothing more than an explanation of facts. The practically minded, seeing a compelling need to identify the crucial factors that could be used to predict and prevent crime, wonder why anyone would invest precious time and energy into speculating about the abstract, underlying details of why crime occurs when and where it does.The authors contend that every intervention, prevention, and policy is based on some theoretical explanation of the causes of human behavior. The improvement of interventions, preventions, and policies is thus directly related to the improvement of theoretical understandings of the abstract, underlying details of the causes of crime. The development of explanations of events, when properly done, is a crucial component to understanding and possibly improving the "real world." This work does just that.
Pamela Wilcox, Kenneth Land, Scott A. Hunt
