Routine Activities Theory focuses on the things we do every day. Use this theory to explain why having a casino in your city will increase crime rates

Routine Activity Theory was developed by Cohen and Felson in 1979. According to this theory, having a casino in your city will increase crime rates because it meets Cohen and Felson’s three criteria. To understand why, we will look at each criterion in more detail.
Firstly, for crime to increase, Cohen and Felson argue that there must be “motivated offenders." In other words, there must be something to entice a person to commit a crime, such as money. In the case of a casino, this incentive is always present. Everybody who visits a casino is in possession of money because they go with the intention of gambling.
Secondly, crime will increase if there are “suitable targets” for an offender to prey on. As we have just seen, casinos do provide suitable targets because we know that casino visitors are in possession of money. In some cases, these sums of money can be very large because the target has recently won on a slot machine or card game.
Finally, Cohen and Felson say that crime will increase if there is also an “absence of a capable guardian,” such as a security guard. Although we know that casinos tend to employ a large number of security guards, remember that they are not always concerned with crimes that occur between customers. Generally speaking, their purpose is to prevent casino clients from cheating and, therefore, decreasing the casino’s profit. Moreover, they may not have a strong, visible presence in the casino. Both of these factors mean that crime rates are more likely to increase.
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