Topic > Routine Activity Theory - 874
They usually leave home every day to go to work at the same time and vice versa. The final part is the co-occurrence of other events. This refers to why something happens. In the traffic example, there is rarely much traffic on weekends because most people work during the week (Miller, 2009). A groundbreaking study of social changes and crime rate trends argues that most human behavior is repetitive and predictable. Furthermore, every crime requires an offender willing and able to commit the crime, an appropriately accessible and vulnerable target, and the absence of any protector or guardian of the target. Timing has a lot to do with the offender's success. The offender must know the best time to take advantage of the
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