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Crime opportunity theory is based on the fundamental
suggestion that offenders make rational choices and does choose
targets that offer High reward with little effort and risk.
SW boys Smith, the UK's former director of police policy.
Once wrote that opportunity is a third principal cause of crime,
This Theory relies heavily on the notion that the occurrence
of a crime, depends on two things.
The presence of at least one motivated offender who is ready
and willing to engage in a crime.
And the conditions of the environment in which the
offender is situated. Marcus Felson and Ronald V clock
to highly esteemed professors of criminology present.
Tim principles of crime opportunity theory in their
research. Paper opportunity makes the
thief, a practical theory for crime.
Prevention, I highly recommend you.
Give this a read, by the way. One opportunities play a role in
causing over crime. To climb up at unities are
highly specific. Three crime opportunities are
concentrated in time and space for Crime opportunities, depend
on everyday, movements of activity, 51 crime, produces
opportunities for another six. Some products offer more
tempting crime opportunities 7 social and technological changes
produced. New crime opportunities 8.
Crimes can be prevented by reducing opportunities. 9
reducing opportunities, does not usually displace crime and 10
focused opportunity, reduction can produce wider declines in
crime. Here is a quote from Felson and
clock on how settings or the environment, play a critical
role in the occurrence of crime. A factor that is at the center
of this episode. Open quote, individual
propensities towards crime and criminal genic features of
settings. While both important are not
equally simple to analyze. The usual approach discovering
who has greater personal propensities towards crime and
why is a more formidable task statistical analyses to unravel
individual causes or highly complicated and seem to go in
circles, articulate essays about the causes of crime may persuade
one. Readers but seem to make little
Headway in persuading others. We see no immediate Prospect of
success and resolving. The many controversies about
what causes individual crime propensities on the other hand,
theories about how Satan's cause crime, or more successful, not
only in gaining, empirical verification, but in reaching
consensus, for example, we know that large pubs with many
drunken young males jostling on another produced more crimes.
We know that the layout of certain Parks or streets invites
prostitution and drug dealing. We understand some of the design
and management principles that help to make public housing and
secure or safe even when there is room for controversy and
refinement Theory close quote, There are three popular
opportunity theories that examine crime from different
perspectives. One.
The routine activity approach assumes that for crimes to
occur. There must be a convergence in
time and space of three minimal elements, a likely offender a
suitable Target and the absence of a capable Guardian against
Crime to the crime. Pattern Theory tells us that the
manner in which people and things move in space and time
can culminate in the occurrence of a crime.
This Theory suggests that the likelihood of crime increases in
accordance with the victim and offenders daily interactions
with the environment. Three, the rational Choice
perspective, proposes that offending is a purpose of
behavior designed to benefit to the offender in some way.
Open court. To understand crime choices.
One must always analyze. Highly specific categories of
offense. The reason for this specifically
is that offenses have such different purposes and are
influenced by very different situational factors.
For example, car thieves are of several different kinds,
including joyriders people, stealing components, or things
left in the car, those stealing cars for resale, or to dismantle
for spare parts. Those Single card to use for
another crime and those simply wanted to drive home, this is
not to say that Those who commit one type of car theft, never
commit another. It merely states that cough
there for one purpose is quite different from car theft for an
entirely different purpose and must be analyzed, accordingly,
felsen and clock say. Jean Andre kids in was a 30 year
old father of one and a native of rustenburg, a city situated
at the foot of the Maha Leesburg mountain range in the Northwest
Province. His parents, whose identities
have been withheld for security reasons, moved to the Northwest
Metropolis, in the early 90s, and found a Haven in a city that
boomed in mining activity. You Andre was the eldest of
three boys. We were fortunate enough to
interview one of your Andre siblings, Marco kitson who
reflected on his childhood growing up under the wings of
his ever protective eldest brother.
Open court. We had quite a close friendship.
Joe and Ray was a very God-fearing man and he always
tried to help me with staying on the right path.
We like to go fishing together. That was where we bonded the
most is, when we'd go fishing together, he always wanted to
take me hunting this year, was the year we were supposed to go
hunting together. Close quote, he said,
Christianity played a crucial role in gironde raise
upbringing. As the eldest, he often preach
the word to Marco and the last born and always use the teaching
of the Holy Bible to correct his brothers.
You Andre was an adventurous kid and naturally his thirst for
Discovery. Always placed him in the line of
danger. Open quote.
We always made jokes saying that he was the child always getting
an accident because he had multiple injuries jumping
through windows on a trampoline motorbike accidents car
accidents. He was a very adventurous and he
lived life 100% closed, quote, Maka, reflected.
Andre attended rustenburg, Christian Academy primary school
and later enrolled at rustenburg high school where he excelled in
it. According to Marco his eldest,
brother was so good at the subject that he earned a decent
income repairing computers in his community.
Israel, Andre matriculated in 2010 and while his peers,
pursued, higher education, he continued driving in his work as
a freelance computer repairment, our Research indicates that draw
Andre used his Specialties and it for six years.
After he matriculated thereafter in 2016, he established aquam
Viv. Mm, a company that sold purified
water and plastic bottle screen printing services to businesses
in rustenburg and Brits. According to Marco Joe and Ray
wasn't really into dating sure. He showed an interest in women
but he never indulged too much in relationships.
Open quote, he always searched for the right woman.
I can remember two of them women, he dated before marriage,
but it didn't work out because he searched for the one that he
would spend the rest of his life with close quote.
Marco said. Jean.
Nate kitson the Womanhood end up stealing his.
You Andres heart was also born and raised in rustenburg.
While not much is known about her background marker confirmed,
their jaw are networked for his mother, who ran a jumping castle
rental business and that's where his brother met her.
Johan. It was in many ways a lot like
Joe and Ray. She was a God-fearing woman, a
devout Christian with a thirst for adventure and Outdoors.
Not very long after they started dating, she won't retook the
knee and the year, they after they got married.
Johan net between 2016 and 2017. Joined Jean Andres,
intrapreneurial Venture and became aquam.
Rhythm sales manager, by 2021, the couple had welcomed their
first and only child Looking back at what we've learned about
draw, Andre, we can reasonably conclude that this faith-based
upbringing paved the way for this Blissful and simple life.
He lived and at the very least, the manner in, which it was
taken was categorically undeserving Saturday 7 May 2012.
He too was like any other for Jean Andre and his family,
according to Marco on Saturdays Jean, Andre Joy, net and a
daughter would always make the 74 km drive from Brits where
they lived to spend the day with his parents in rustenburg.
Joe and Ray also had business dealings in his hometown and
he'd often tend to those whenever he was around on
Saturdays. On that fateful weekend, though.
He had no such Arrangements. The last time marker saw his
brother was around 6 p.m. when he left the home.
Sure, Andre GE net and a daughter said their goodbyes and
headed back to bridge shortly before 8 p.m.
Not long, thereafter joined Rey's, mother received a
WhatsApp message from Joy. Net informing her, that they had
driven over sharp objects on the end for Highway and were forced
to park on the side of the world to change a punctured Tire.
Open quote, my brother drove his fine secret, but he had to stop
to change that Tire close quote. Mockery called Jean, Nate asked
her mother-in-law to keep them in her prayers.
Since that route was synonymous with rampant criminal activity,
In fact, earlier that day police were called out to the scene of
a murder where a man was shot and killed on the same road.
While Jean, Andre was busy changing.
The punctured Tire of his hand is UV.
Three armed men pounds from the bushes and accosted him.
Open court. Join 8, heard my brother begging
for the murderers, just to please leave them alone.
They can take everything they want but they must just please
leave them alone, close quote, Marco revealed.
At this point draw, Andre was still outside of the car.
The armed men, rummaged inside the vehicle in search of
valuable items to make over with.
Is your Annette who had clutched her baby in her arms was told to
get out of the car. As soon as she was outside, one
of the robbers tried snatching the baby out of her grasp and
according to Marco, this is when things when Tori.
Jean Andre it's believed lunged toward his wife and stood
between her and the armed robbers.
And this is when it's believed he was, fatally shot in the head
execution Style. According to genetic account of
events. After her, husband was viciously
gunned down right in front of her and they daughter, she was
shot twice in the shoulder and fell to the ground covering the
baby. The robbers possibly spooked by
oncoming traffic took two cell phones, a bag of baby clothes
and nappies, as well as the couple's luggage bag and ran off
into the night. Fortunate to still be alive,
often countering the worst possible nightmare of their
life. Jeanette with her baby firmly
placed in her grasp ran to get help.
According to Marco, she returned to the crime scene, where by
then, a towing company had pulled up to inspect.
The stationary vehicle abandoned on the side of a very busy and
dangerous Highway Join a try to contact her mother-in-law but
she wasn't picking up. Thereafter.
She found a contact number belonging to a friend of Jean
Andres mother and broke the tragic news to her.
The friend made the short trip to the kids in home and that's
how our Andres parents were informed of his murder.
The family got arranged by the tragic.
News made the 45-minute trip to the crime scene where they emit
a distraught and injured, Troy net.
Sure, net and daughter were rushed to a nearby Medical
Hospital for emergency treatment.
Joy and raise body. On the other hand was collected
by forensic officials and the case of murder was assigned to
Britt homicide. Detective Sergeant Sabayon, We
made a number of attempts to reach Sergeant.
See banana to get a clearer perspective of the
investigation. But unfortunately, a response
was not returned at the time of this episode's recording.
However, according to Marco, who voiced his discontent with the
man named which the case has thus far been handled.
Sure. And raise the vehicle was taken
in for examinations and forensic officials pulled a number of
fingerprint profiles. What is unclear at the stage is
whether these profiles include the Suspects.
Open quote. If my father calls to hear
what's going on in the investigation, they'll just tell
him. No, they're still searching
around, they're still trying. We don't get anything worth out
of them to tell us that they are really investigating and getting
to a point close quote. Marco said, from what we know is
your net, the only eyewitness who may have seen the faces of
the Killer's was not formally interviewed by authorities and
thus no composite sketches, whatever drawn Open quote, my
parents are heartbroken. I see my father's, not the same,
man. He was at all, we all go to see
a psychologist that helps us, get over this thing.
And to talk about it, everyone is doing very, very badly.
Life is not the same at all. Maybe it would have been much
better if police gave us updates on what's going on.
Close quote, Marcus it. With the case, pretty much
called more than two months later, the kids and family has
issued a 100 Grand cash reward for information that will lead
to the arrest and subsequent prosecution of the suspects
involved in the murder. While this reward has spurred
interest in the case, Marco revealed that sharing his
personal. Contact information has opened
his family up to threats from Unknown.
People warning him against pursuing Justice for his
brother. Open court.
They were weird. Sms's coming to my side.
Telling me they want to meet up with me, but they don't want any
police involved. They just want to see me and my
family. So we have a hit on our backs.
Close quote, Marco added The kids and family continues in
their pursuit of justice. But from an investigative
perspective, the murder case of Jean Andre much like many others
in South Africa remains unsolved If you were listening to this
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