Papers by Richard Wortley
Child Sexual Abuse and Opportunity
Oxford University Press eBooks, Feb 5, 2018
Explanations of child sex abuse typically focus on the offenders’ presumed pathological dispositi... more Explanations of child sex abuse typically focus on the offenders’ presumed pathological dispositions that are seen to drive their offending behavior, and pay little attention to the role played by opportunity and other situational factors. It is argued in this chapter that child sexual abuse, like all behavior, is the product of a person-situation interaction and as such can be analysed using the theories and approaches of environmental criminology. Child sexual abuse is found to occur in contexts where potential victims can be easily accessed and where personal, social, situational, and legal controls over potential offenders are weak. Establishing a situational basis for child sexual abuse opens the way for the application of situational crime prevention strategies to create safer places for children.
Using Forensic Assessment Instruments to Inform Risk Management
Reducing prison disorder through situational prevention
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Homicide Studies, Mar 9, 2022
How house burglars decide on targets: a computer-based scenario approach
Child Pornography
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Oct 5, 2014
The values of offenders neutralization theory re-examined
Routledge eBooks, Jul 5, 2017
The most widely known classification of situational crime prevention techniques is that presented... more The most widely known classification of situational crime prevention techniques is that presented by Clarke 2 . The latest version of the classification proposed 16 techniques for preventing crime through opportunity reduction. The present paper suggests a complementary classification of 16 techniques for controlling situational precipitators of crime. The new classification is based on the argument that there are two distinct situational forces acting upon potential offenders --the perceived costs and benefits of intended criminal acts (the basis of Clarke's classification) and factors that may induce individuals to commit crimes that they would not have otherwise considered (the basis of the present classification).
Willan eBooks, May 13, 2013
Psychology
Routledge eBooks, Nov 13, 2018
Prisoner-prisoner violence
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Mar 25, 2002
Conclusions: hard and soft situational prison control
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Mar 25, 2002
Crime & Delinquency, Sep 27, 2020
The micro-situational context of sexual offences against adult women: Unpacking the role of guard... more The micro-situational context of sexual offences against adult women: Unpacking the role of guardianship intensity in disruption The current study explores the way guardianship is perceived by offenders and the extent to which it affects the likelihood of disruption in sexual offences against adult females. Specifically, we compare the micro-situational contexts in which sexual offences against adult females are disrupted to those in which these offences are completed. Data on sexual crime events was collected from 138 adult males who were incarcerated for committing a sexual offence against a woman using a self-report questionnaire incorporating a crime-script framework. We found that the presence or availability of a guardian does not guarantee offence disruption. Rather, action taken by the guardian is the critical factor which determines a sexual offender's decision to cease the offence.
Cognition and Crime
Preface, Derek B. Cornish, 1. The reasoning criminal: Twenty-five years on, Benoit Leclerc and Ri... more Preface, Derek B. Cornish, 1. The reasoning criminal: Twenty-five years on, Benoit Leclerc and Richard Wortley, 2. What are violent offenders thinking? Richard Felson, 3. How burglars decide on targets: A computer-based scenario approach, Ross Homel, Stuart MacIntyre, and Richard Wortley, 4. The risks and rewards of motor vehicle theft: Implications for criminal persistence, Heith Copes and Michael Cherbonneau, 5. The rational choice perspective and the phenomenon of stalking: An examination of sex differences in behaviours, rationales, situational precipitators and feelings, Carleen Thompson and Benoit Leclerc, 6. Interpersonal scripts and victim reaction in child sexual abuse: A quantitative analysis of the offender-victim interchange Benoit Leclerc, Stephen Smallbone and Richard Wortley, 7. Drug dealing: Amsterdam's Red Light district, Scott Jacques and Wim Bernasco, 8. Human trafficking for sexual exploitation in Italy, Ernesto Savona, Luca Giommoni and Marina Mancuso, 9. Script analysis of corruption in public procurement, Marco Zanella, 10. Cigarette smuggling and terrorism financing: A script approach, Alexandra Hiropoulos, Joshua Freilich, Steven Chermak and Graeme Newman, 11. Script analysis of the transnational illegal market in endangered species: Dream and reality, William Moreto and Ronald V. Clarke, 12. New developments in script analysis for situational crime prevention: Moving beyond offender scripts, Benoit Leclerc, 13. Rational choice and offender decision making: Lessons from the cognitive sciences, Richard Wortley.
Child Pornography
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jun 13, 2019
The Australian Homicide Project: Key Findings
Role play in New South Wales
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Mar 7, 2022
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