NCJ Number
108936
Journal
Criminology Volume: 25 Issue: 4 Dated: (November 1987) Pages: 911-931
Date Published
1987
Length
21 pages
Annotation
Routine activities deliver easy crime opportunities to the offender.
Abstract
Astute planners and managers can interfere with this delivery, diverting flows of likely offenders (such as adolescents) away from streams of suitable targets (such as television sets). They can engineer traffic to provide 'natural surveillance.' Past trends encouraged crime rate increases, but the developing metropolitan facility could reverse this, privatizing substantial portions of metropolitan turf. (Publisher abstract)