ABSTRACT
Routine Activities and Crime is derived primarily from the assumptions of free will and rational thought perspectives in classical criminology. Based on the notion that insofar as people engage in "routine activities" they will be prone to criminal offending or victimization, regardless of their biological or cultural backgrounds. Shining from a multi-causal theory of crime based on social bonding, Hirschi and Gottfredson offer a "general theory of crime" based on the concept of self-control. Individuals with low self-control will have a higher propensity to engage in criminal and deviant behavior, such as: smoking, drinking, using drugs, gambling, having "illegitimate" children and illicit sexual intercourse. Building from Merton's strain theory, contemporary theorists have developed revisions in the concepts of strain as it relates to criminal behavior on an individual level and on a structural level. Peacemaking Criminology develops from a religious humanism and a broader concern for social justice as well as feminism.
