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Monday 27 February 2012

Crime as Opportunity Theory is Wrong

Can something that has not yet happened make you do it?

Of course not. This means that the Routine Activities Theory (RAT) premise that the characteristics of a successfully completed crime are the cause of that crime is a spuriofact.

RAT is the pet theory of many police forces in the US and UK and is promoted by both governments as veracious and useful.

Read how this myth was busted on the Dysology site