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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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Crime Script Analysis of Offense Procedures
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / criminology
  • Cornish, D. B. (1994). The procedural analysis of offending and its relevance for situational prevention. Crime Prevention Studies, 3, 151–196. · URL
  • Borrion, H. (2013). Quality assurance in crime scripting. Crime Science, 2(1), 6. · DOI 10.1186/2193-7680-2-6
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Same method familyConjunctive Analysis of Case Configurationsmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyDeterrence Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyRoutine Activity Theorymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familySituational Crime Prevention Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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