Your city has a large shopping mall with an attached underground parking garage. There has been an increase in the number of automobiles being stolen or broken into. In addition, some of the shoppers have been victims of robberies while at the mall and in the parking garage.
In this context, respond to the following:
Explain how you would apply the crime triangle—comprising of the presence and interaction of motivated offenders, targets, and guardians of the routine activities theory—to help reduce these incidents of crime.
Explain the preventive measures that you would use against the offenders, the targets, and the guardians.
Describe the prevention measures you would impose to address these crimes. Provide the reasons for your approach.
In the above scenario, some of the robbery victims were injured when they did not follow the criminal’s instructions at the time of robberies.
Discuss the use of neutralization theory to explain some of the potential causes of criminal activity. In your answer, explain how they may use the following techniques of neutralization:
Denial of responsibility
Denial of injury
Denial of victim
Condemning the condemners
Appeal to a higher loyalty
