Routine Activity Theory
Channel: Subrata Banarjee
Date: 2020-07-15

Routine Activity Theory (RAT) is one of the main theories of "environmental criminology". It was developed by criminologists Lawrence Cohen and Marcus Felson (1979), who have worked for a number of years on crime prevention theory. RAT states that for a predatory crime to occur, 3 elements must be present when any crime is committed
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