Routine Activities Flipbook

A few months ago (around 6 to be precise) I did a blog post suggesting how you might want to evaluate a Routine Activities approach

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Crime as a Cause of Crime? Evaluating Routine Activities

Felson and Cohen’s Routine Activities approach (1979) has arguably been one of the most-influential recent theories of crime, one that sits squarely within contemporary New

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Visualising Routine Activities Theory

Routine Activities Theory has been described (by me, just now) as one of the key theoretical contributions to the development of Situational Crime Prevention strategies

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What Works to Reduce Crime?: A Summary of the Evidence

It’s probably safe to say that a key driver of crime policy in countries like Britain and America over the past 50 or so years

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The Crime Collection

In a previous post I pulled-together all the free crime and deviance films we have available to create a simple one-stop-shop (so to speak) you

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Of Methods and Methodology: 2. Interpretivism

A methodology is a framework for research that focuses on how it is possible to collect reliable and valid data about, in this instance, the

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Sociology Flipbooks

A Flipbook is a way of displaying a pdf document online so that it has the look-and-feel of a paper-based magazine, one whose pages you

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Rational Choice Theory | 2

This second (of two) posts evaluates Rational Choice Theory and, by extension, any New Right / Right Realist theories based on the notion of rational

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Rational Choice Theory | 1

This first of two posts on Rational Choice Theory (RCT) provides an overview of a key New Right theory whose central argument about criminal rationality

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Crime Displacement PowerPoint

Over the past 50 years it’s probably fair to say that a great deal of the sociology of crime and deviance in both America and,

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