Routine activity approach is the study of the human offender or the most likely to commit crime when there is a target, and no capable guardian. It was proposed and coined by Lawrence Cohen and Marcus Felson in 1979 (Miller, 2006: 81). Cohen and Felson based their theory on a rational choice model, in which people make rational decisions in ways that will be to their advantage, with as little disadvantage as possible (Akers, 2004: 26). It is a subfield of criminology and rational choice. The development of this theory was in response to the surge of crime rate in the united between 1947 and 1974(Cohen, 1979: 588). It covers the actions and focuses mostly on the motivation and guardian versus opportunity. Routine activity theory says that crime
