השוואת שיטות

	Routine Activity Theory	Journey to Crime Analysis
תחום	Criminology	Criminology
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	1979	2000
הוגה השיטה	Lawrence E. Cohen & Marcus Felson	D. Kim Rossmo (geographic profiling); journey-to-crime tradition
סוג	Theoretical framework for explaining the occurrence of predatory crime	Spatial analysis of offender travel and home-location inference
מקור מכונן	Cohen, L. E., & Felson, M. (1979). Social change and crime rate trends: A routine activity approach. American Sociological Review, 44(4), 588–608.	Rossmo, D. K. (2000). Geographic Profiling. CRC Press. ISBN: 9780849381294
כינויים	RAT, Routine Activities Approach, Crime Triangle Framework, Cohen-Felson Theory	Journey-to-Crime Modeling, Geographic Profiling, Crime Trip Analysis, Distance-Decay Crime Analysis
קשורות	4	4
תקציר	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.	Journey-to-crime analysis studies how far and where offenders travel from an anchor point — usually home — to commit crimes, and inverts that pattern to infer an unknown offender's likely base. The aggregate distance-decay regularity (most crimes occur near the offender's home, with frequency falling off with distance) underlies geographic profiling, formalized by D. Kim Rossmo in 2000 to prioritize the search for serial offenders.