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	Conjunctive Analysis of Case Configurations	Routine Activity Theory
Field	Criminology	Criminology
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	2008	1979
Originator	Terance Miethe, Timothy Hart & Wendy Regoeczi	Lawrence E. Cohen & Marcus Felson
Type	Exploratory case-based multivariate analysis of categorical crime data	Theoretical framework for explaining the occurrence of predatory crime
Seminal source	Miethe, T. D., Hart, T. C., & Regoeczi, W. C. (2008). The conjunctive analysis of case configurations: An exploratory method for discrete multivariate analyses of crime data. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 24(2), 227–241.	Cohen, L. E., & Felson, M. (1979). Social change and crime rate trends: A routine activity approach. American Sociological Review, 44(4), 588–608.
Aliases	CACC, Conjunctive Analysis, Case Configuration Analysis	RAT, Routine Activities Approach, Crime Triangle Framework, Cohen-Felson Theory
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Summary	Conjunctive analysis of case configurations (CACC) is an exploratory, case-based method for analyzing categorical crime data. Introduced by Miethe, Hart, and Regoeczi in 2008, it builds a matrix of all observed combinations of categorical attributes — the distinct case 'profiles' — and tabulates how often each occurs and what its outcome rate is, revealing how attributes act in combination rather than as isolated net effects.	Routine activity theory explains predatory crime not by the supply of motivated offenders but by the everyday structure of legal activities that brings offenders, targets, and the absence of guardians together in space and time. Proposed by Lawrence Cohen and Marcus Felson in 1979, it argues that crime rates can rise even when offender motivation is constant, because changes in how people work, shop, and spend leisure time alter the opportunities for crime.