Crime and Routine Activity

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Rohana Sham
Norlida Abdul Hamid
Suhana Mohamed
Razifah Othman

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Routine activity and crime are much related to one another. When a women is on their routine trip, the possibility of crime to happen along the routine route is high. Therefore examining the exact routine activities of women travelers is needed by transport operators so that transport services can be offered accordingly to their needs. This paper examine the detail of women routine especially those involve in occupation or working group who are highly depending on public bus to commute. Therefore, the objective of the research is to determine the factors of trip chain, travel distance and time of travelling that affect women’s travelling safety issues in an urban area.

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Sham, R., Abdul Hamid, N., Mohamed, S. and Othman, R. 2018. Crime and Routine Activity. Asian Journal of Quality of Life. 3, 9 (Jan. 2018), 69–76. DOI:https://doi.org/10.21834/ajqol.v3i9.78.

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