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The initial focus of Felson’s routine activity perspective was the crime increases of the 1960s and 1970s that were largely a function of inadvertent changes in everyday life (Cohen & Felson, 1979). The rise in crime was an unintended side effect of developments in technology, transportation, and domestic life that were widely welcomed. More money, more consumer goods, more labour-saving devices, more transport, and more employment opportunities for women, for example, all brought benefits to citizens, but they also created more crime opportunities and hence sustained increases in crime.
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Tilley, N., Farrell, G., Clarke, R.V. (2015). Target Suitability and the Crime Drop. In: Andresen, M.A., Farrell, G. (eds) The Criminal Act. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137391322_5
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