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	Repeat Victimization Analysis	Routine Activity Theory
Field	Criminology	Criminology
Family	Regression model	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	1993	1979
Originator	Ken Pease, Graham Farrell & colleagues	Lawrence E. Cohen & Marcus Felson
Type	Time-to-event analysis of elevated short-term re-victimization risk	Theoretical framework for explaining the occurrence of predatory crime
Seminal source	Tseloni, A., & Pease, K. (2003). Repeat personal victimization: 'Boosts' or 'flags'? British Journal of Criminology, 43(1), 196–212.	Cohen, L. E., & Felson, M. (1979). Social change and crime rate trends: A routine activity approach. American Sociological Review, 44(4), 588–608.
Aliases	Repeat Victimisation Analysis, Re-Victimization Risk Analysis, Multiple Victimization Analysis, Time-Course of Repeat Victimization	RAT, Routine Activities Approach, Crime Triangle Framework, Cohen-Felson Theory
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Summary	Repeat victimization analysis studies the sharply elevated short-term risk that the same target — a household, person, or business — is victimized again soon after an initial offense. Established as a crime-prevention priority by Ken Pease, Graham Farrell, and colleagues in the early 1990s, it models the time-course of re-victimization, quantifies how the hazard of a repeat decays as time passes since the first event, and asks whether repeats arise because an event 'boosts' future risk or because stable target features 'flag' that risk.	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.