Crime pattern theory is particularly important in developing an understanding of crime and place, as it combines rational choice and routine activities theory to help explain the distribution of crime across places.

Crime pattern theory claims that a crime involving an offender and a victim or target can only occur when the activity spaces of both cross paths. Simply put crime will occur if an area provides the opportunity for crime and it exists within an offender's awareness space.

Pattern theory (often referred to as crime pattern theory) is the last theoretical perspective that will be addressed in this chapter. Pattern theory is important to environmental criminology because it aids in our understanding of the importance of place in crime prevention efforts.

2021年1月29日 · Although the core of crime pattern theory explains spatial patterns in crime, it also addresses temporal crime patterns by acknowledging that target attractiveness can be time-varying. A place might be attractive for crime during the day but unattractive at night.

Crime pattern theory explains the process of criminal target search, suggests strategies for crime reduction, and describes potential displacements of criminal events in space and time following changes in the suitability of targets or target locations at particular places and specific times.

2009年10月13日 · Crime Pattern Theory integrates crime within a geographic context that demonstrates how the environments people live in and pass through influence criminality. The theory specifically focuses on places and the lack of social control or other measures of guardianship that are informally needed to control crime.

Criminology tries to explain crime and criminal behaviour. This poses longstanding questions: Why do only some people commit crimes? Why are some people re-victimised frequently while others rarely are victims? Why do some places experience a lot of crime while other places experience almost none?