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Crime Science 2012
Opportunity makes the thief. Really? And so what?Keywords: Crime causation, Situational crime prevention, Opportunity theory, The rational choice perspective, Routine activities theory, Environmental criminology, Administrative criminologists Abstract: This paper describes the difficulties in establishing that opportunity is cause of crime and why this took so long. It reviews the research that was undertaken to this end, and it summarizes the benefits for criminology and crime policy of accepting that opportunity does cause crime.
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