3.2 Situational Factors (the offence's side)

The situation's criminology (the "where-and-when" of the act): The opportunity's structure: the target's presence-and-attractiveness (the suitable target — the routine-activities' triangle); the guardianship's absence (the capable guardian's lack — the police, the owner, the bystander); the access (the porous borders, the unguarded spaces, the cyber's anonymous reach); The time-and-place: the temporal patterns (the night's-and-festival's peaks; the payday effects; the seasonality); the spatial patterns (the hot spots — the crime's concentration at the few places: the bus parks, the entertainment zones, the border towns; the repeat- victimisation's face); the environment's design (the lighting, the sightlines, the terrain — the CPTED's craft); The situational triggers: the victim-offender relationship (the acquaintance crime's dominance — the family's-and-intimate's share in the violence; the "stranger danger" myth's correction); the provocation-and-conflict (the disputes' escalation — the trivial-trigger homicides; the "marital-and-liquor" pattern); the presence-of-weapons (the availability's lethality multiplier); the alcohol-and-drugs (the disinhibition's situational face — the "DUI-and- brawl" economy); The facilitators: the presence-of-accomplices (the group's courage — the co-offending's dynamics); the anonymity-and-crowd (the riot's-and-mob's faces — the deindividuation); the social disorder's signals (the broken-windows' thesis: the visible decay's invitation — the theory's debate-and-testing); The systemic-and-institutional situations: the market's structures (the illegitimate opportunity's ladders — the illicit economy's niches); the enforcement's weakness (the impunity's zones: the unsolved crime's incentive effect — the certainty's lesson of Unit 2.2); the organisational-and-white-collar…