Routine Activity Approach

Hayes, Downs, & Blackwood (2012), state that: the routine activity approach and its situational crime prevention theoretical framework describes how individual crime attempts may be prevented (p.3). Using the routine activity approach theoretical framework (that most criminal acts are undertaken by motivated offenders against a target or potential victim), based the situational crime prevention techniques, one can interrupt the opportunities directly and indirectly for a crime (shoplifting/ store theft) to occur at this Starbucks location by increasing the efforts; increasing the risk; reducing rewards; reducing provocations, and removing excuses.
The management in the Bloomingdale Starbucks location can increase the effort to reduce crime