ABSTRACT
Crime opportunity theory suggests that when offenders want to commit a crime, they look for an opportunity or a practical target. By implementing crime prevention through environmental design strategies, opportunities for crime will be reduced. In the 1998 publication, Opportunity Makes the Thief, Marcus Felson and Ronald V. Clarke present 10 principles of crime opportunity theory, which describe how opportunities, or vulnerabilities, are the root cause of crime. The first five principles are opportunities play a role in causing all crime, crime opportunities are highly specific, crime opportunities are concentrated in time and space, crime opportunities depend on everyday movements and one crime produces opportunities for another. The last five principles are some products offer more tempting crime opportunities, social and technological changes produce new crime opportunities, opportunities for crime can be reduced, reducing opportunities does not usually displace crime and focused opportunity reduction can produce wider declines in crime.
