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Social Change and Crime Rate Trends: A Routine Activity Approach
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“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
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“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.”
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“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
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“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]”
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“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).”
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Metadata
- 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)
- OpenAlex
- W4249855545
- Cited by
- 8,856
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- 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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