SITUATIONAL CRIME
PREVENTION
Roman Williams
CJ1210
June 30, 2014
Theory Implications
The concept of situational crime started to gain recognition in the
late 1940s when Edwin Sutherland (1947) argued that crime was
either “historical” – influenced by previous personal history, or
“situational” – the environmental factors encompassing the crime
scene. Although acknowledged by the majority of criminologists,
the concept of “situation” was not their primary focus and remained
ignored up until the…
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