Finally, the third is the crime pattern theory which is very important to develop an understanding the crime and the place since it combines the routine activity theory and rational choice in explaining how crimes distribute across places (Eck & Weisburd, 1995). The study of (Felson et al., 1998) added that the crime pattern theory is the central component of environmental criminology that considers how people and the things interact with the physical environment and how they involved in crime which move about in space and time. A study explores how offenders interact with their physical and social environments that …show more content…
In the society the rational offender, the suitable target and the capable guardians are interacting towards another on their daily activities. Through this a crime can be patterned in the distribution of events of crime in the matter of time, place and the targets since the rational offender will have enough information as to when he can make his move against the suitable target for the reason that the capable guardian is not always around and this will be his opportunity to commit.
Patterns of crime
As what the researchers mostly shared that crimes are not spread randomly across the places or areas, the people and the times. (Barrera, 2014 ) cited that “ crimes tend to have spatial and temporal patterns”. According to (Ratcliffe, 2004), the space-time patterning of the crimes is essential that leads the scholars to develop its typology to