Opportunity Makes the Thief

Police Research Series Paper 98 Opportunity Makes the ThiefPractical theory for crime preventionMarcus Felson Ronald V. ClarkeEditor: Barry WebbHome OfficePolicing and Reducing crime UnitResearch, Development and Statistics Directorate50 Queen Anne s GateLondon SW1H 9 ATCrown Copyright 1998 First Published 1998 Policing and Reducing crime Unit: Police Research SeriesThe Policing and Reducing crime Unit (PRC Unit) was formed in 1998 as a resultof the merger of the Police Research Group (PRG) and the Research and StatisticsDirectorate. The PRC Unit is now one part of the Research, Development andStatistics Directorate of the Home Office. The PRC Unit carries out andcommissions research in the social and management sciences on policing andcrime reduction, broadening out the role that PRG played.

Executive summar y Crime theory can and should assist crime prevention. Recent “opportunity” theories of crime have emphasized principles which are close to the real world, easy

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