Criminal Opportunity Theory and the relationship Between Poverty and Property Crime.
Criminal opportunity theory suggests that community economic deprivation has two countervailing effects on property crime: it causes strain and disorganization which may encourage some individuals to offend, but it also simultaneously lessens opportunities to engage in property crime by reducing the...
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2001
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