Abstract

CAMPOY TORRENTE, Pedro  and  SUMMERS, Lucia. Situation-related crime precipitators: another glance at the human interaction with the environment. Rev. Crim. [online]. 2015, vol.57, n.3, pp.41-58. ISSN 1794-3108.

Situational crime precipitators (Wortley, 2008) have received little attention from criminological literature in the Spanish language and, very often, they have been subsumed into the rational choice perspective (Cornish & Clarke, 2003). However, the autonomous study of these concepts offers us a good opportunity to delve into the process through which offenders move to commit the actual criminal act itself. The objective of this study is to synthetize the evidence with relation to the situational crime precipitators offering a new way to examine the human interaction with the environment in the field of crime. The methodology used envisages a systematic review of empirical literature works carried out since 2007. The results suggest that it is necessary to go further in-depth into the offender’s decision-making process from an integrated theoretical outlook instead of resorting to an atomized point of view. The article is concluded with a discussion on results after considering the major features and limitations of the studies examined.

Keywords : Environmental criminology; situation-related crime precipitators; the theory of the rational choice; crime prevention; deviated.

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