Crime Pattern Theory
Definition
Paul and Patricia Brantingham's model of offending as a product of where an offender's everyday nodes, paths and edges intersect with a suitable target, rather than a product of neighbourhood decay.
Related terms
- Awareness Space
- The set of locations a person knows well through routine movement between home, work and leisure nodes, which crime pattern theory treats...
- Concentric Zone Model
- Ernest Burgess's 1925 model of city growth as five rings expanding outward from a central business district, each ring defined by land...
- Human Ecology
- Robert Park's framework for studying how populations and land uses compete for urban space, borrowing the vocabulary of invasion, competition and succession...
- Invasion-Succession-Dominance
- The three-stage process by which a new land use or population group enters a zone (invasion), gradually displaces the previous occupants (succession)...
- Zone in Transition
- The second ring in Burgess's model, sitting just outside the business core, marked by cheap rooming houses, factories encroaching on residential blocks...