ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that some of the areas in which crime science specifically might focus its academic endeavour. Crime science, as with most criminology, has focused so far on a quite narrow range of high-volume offence types that are typically committed by disadvantaged young males. One future direction for crime science concerns the adaptation of theory and formulation of crime-prevention strategies better to speak to the cyber/global nature of crime as well as the physical/local, and the inevitable intersection of the two. Just as the fundamental attribution error can lead to blindness to the importance of situations in producing patterns of volume crime so too it can do the same for white-collar crimes committed by the relatively powerful. Counterfeit medicines are a common and costly problem, particularly in low-income settings. One of the insights on which crime science draws is that opportunity is a major driver of crime.
