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| Near-Repeat Analysis× | Routine Activity Theory× | |
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| Field | Criminology | Criminology |
| Family | Process / pipeline | Process / pipeline |
| Year of origin≠ | 2003 | 1979 |
| Originator≠ | Michael Townsley, Shane Johnson & Kate Bowers | Lawrence E. Cohen & Marcus Felson |
| Type≠ | Space-time clustering test for crime contagion | Theoretical framework for explaining the occurrence of predatory crime |
| Seminal source≠ | Townsley, M., Homel, R., & Chaseling, J. (2003). Infectious burglaries: A test of the near repeat hypothesis. British Journal of Criminology, 43(3), 615–633. DOI ↗ | Cohen, L. E., & Felson, M. (1979). Social change and crime rate trends: A routine activity approach. American Sociological Review, 44(4), 588–608. DOI ↗ |
| Aliases | Near Repeat Calculator Method, Space-Time Near-Repeat Analysis, Near-Repeat Victimization, Contagion Crime Pattern Analysis | RAT, Routine Activities Approach, Crime Triangle Framework, Cohen-Felson Theory |
| Related | 4 | 4 |
| Summary≠ | Near-repeat analysis tests whether crimes cluster in space and time beyond chance: after a crime occurs, are nearby locations at elevated risk for a short period? Developed in the early 2000s by Townsley, Johnson, Bowers and colleagues for burglary, it formalizes the 'contagion' or 'communicable disease' pattern of crime using a Knox space-time test against a Monte Carlo reference distribution. | 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. |
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