Ridges
CRAVED
Crime scripts
Crime attractors
Forces of regulation
Awareness space
Symbols of normative success
Code of the streets
Forces integration
Bounded rationality
Instrumental violence
Utility maximization
Nodes
Expressive violence
Anomie
Situational crime prevention
Crime generators
Symbolic interactionism
Paths
Activity space
Offenders decisions are constrained by the amount of knowledge available to offenders and situational circumstances.
Areas along roads or transportation routes, where crime often groups or clusters.
State of lawlessness, normlessness or unrestrained ambition, which could lead to breakdown in social solidarity.
Males are expected to react with violence against signs of disrespect.
Violence associated with situations that frustrate offenders, which carry an emotional component and have as a sole purpose to hurt victims.
Places that attract crime because they have a reputation as good places to go to commit crime
Disadvantaged males and the use of toughness, willingness to engage in violence and display of dominance.
The completion of an offence involves multiple tasks, offenders must choose how to perform each one assessing costs and rewards.
Calculated actions employed by offenders to accomplish an ulterior objective. They are merely a means to reach another goal.
Locations that people are familiar with. Victims are able to pick-up environmental cues to avoid being targeted and offenders to exploit criminal opportunities.
Areas that bring together a sufficient number of people in time and space to create ample criminal opportunities for motivated offenders
Various locations (or activity nodes) where people work, reside, or play.
Acronym proposed by Clarke to assess target suitability by determining how concealable, removable, available, valuable, enjoyable and disposable items are.
Laws and social institutions that help ensure compliance with social norms, values, and beliefs.
The Chicago school notion that meaning and reality are socially constructed through the use or sharing of gestures, symbols, or words, which are themselves socially-created symbols that convey socially-agreed upon meanings.
Measures taken to reduce crime opportunities by influencing offenders' choices through costs, risks, and rewards of perpetrating specific offences.
Choices are made based on what one perceives will provide the greatest rewards for the lowest costs.
Social bonds and shared beliefs that bring and hold people together.
Places where most crime takes place.
Routes that offenders and victims follow to move from one social domain to the other.
