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Social Change and Crime Rate Trends: A Routine Activity Approach

Cohen, Lawrence E., Felson, Marcus·1979·American Sociological Review
DOI 10.2307/2094589
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  • According to lifestyles/routine activity theory, organizational structures and social routines present opportunities for motivated offenders to come into contact with potential targets.

    “According to the lifestyles/routine activity theory framework (Cohen and Felson 1979;Hindelang et al. 1978), organizational structures and social routines present opportunities for motivated offenders to come into contact with potential targets.”

    From Profiling consumers who reported mass marketing scams: demographic characteristics and emotional sentiments associated with victimization (2024) · cites this paper as Cohen and Felson 1979

  • Routine Activity Theory can explain how offenders exploit the convergence of targets and a lack of capable guardianship in poorly moderated VR spaces.

    “For instance, theories like Routine Activity Theory (Cohen & Felson, 1979) can explain how offenders exploit the convergence of targets and a lack of capable guardianship in poorly moderated VR spaces.”

    From Virtual Reality Risks for Children in the Metaverse: An Examination through Criminological Perspectives (2026) · cites this paper as Cohen & Felson, 1979

  • The Routine Activity Approach offers a situational explanation for how OSG opportunities emerge, emphasizing the convergence of a motivated offender, a suitable target, and the absence of capable guardians.

    “Similarly, the Routine Activity Approach (Cohen & Felson, 1979) offers a situational explanation for how OSG opportunities emerge, emphasizing the convergence of a motivated offender, a suitable target, and the absence of capable guardians.”

    From Unraveling the Complexities of Offender Strategies as Part of Online Sexual Grooming and Technology-Assisted Child Sexual Abuse: A Systematic Review (2026) · cites this paper as Cohen & Felson, 1979

  • Routine activity theory holds that crime occurs when a motivated offender converges with a suitable target in the absence of a capable guardian.

    “routine activity theory, which holds that crime occurs when a motivated offender converges with a suitable target in the absence of a capable guardian [11]”

    From Geopolitical competition, online radicalisation, and organisational culture as vectors of the evolving insider threat (2026) · cites this paper as [11]

  • Crimes, particularly violent crimes, tend to take place on specific street segments where there is an optimal combination of possible offenders, targets, and supervision.

    “Studies of criminal activity repeatedly show that crimes, particularly violent crimes, tend to take place on specific street segments where there is an optimal combination of possible offenders, targets, and supervision (Braga, Papachristos, and Hureau 2010;Cohen and Felson 1979;St. Jean 2008).”

    From Danger on the way to school: exposure to violent crime, public transportation, and absenteeism (2019) · cites this paper as Cohen and Felson 1979

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Authors
Cohen, L. E., & Felson, M.
ORCID
Felson, Marcus
Venue
American Sociological Review
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
1979-08
Volume
44
Issue
4
Pages
588
ISSN
0003-1224 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.2307/2094589
OpenAlex
W4249855545
Cited by
8,856
References
0
Citations by year
2026: 716 · 2025: 559 · 2024: 563 · 2023: 531 · 2022: 614 · 2021: 576 · 2020: 540 · 2019: 479 · 2018: 468 · 2017: 395 · 2016: 390 · 2015: 352 · 2014: 296 · 2013: 335 · 2012: 280
FWCI
52.04
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
American Sociological Review (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Social Sciences › Law › Criminal Justice and Penology
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
Keywords
social change, routine activity theory, crime victimization, victim-offender overlap

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