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Crime Script Analysis

Crime script analysis adapts the cognitive concept of a 'script' — the ordered sequence of actions for a routine activity, like dining at a restaurant — to crime. Introduced by Derek Cornish in 1994, it decomposes a complete offense into its successive scenes and actions, from preparation through entry, the act itself, and exit, exposing the requirements at each stage and the points where intervention can break the sequence.

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  1. Cornish, D. B. (1994). The procedural analysis of offending and its relevance for situational prevention. Crime Prevention Studies, 3, 151–196. link
  2. Borrion, H. (2013). Quality assurance in crime scripting. Crime Science, 2(1), 6. DOI: 10.1186/2193-7680-2-6

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ScholarGate. (2026, June 22). Crime Script Analysis of Offense Procedures. ScholarGate. https://scholargate.app/en/criminology/crime-script-analysis

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ScholarGateCrime Script Analysis (Crime Script Analysis of Offense Procedures). Retrieved 2026-06-24 from https://scholargate.app/en/criminology/crime-script-analysis · Dataset: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20539026