Law means that for there to be a crime there must be a law broken otherwise it is not illegal so it is not a crime. Delinquent means there must be someone who has broken the law without someone breaking the law there is no crime. Victim or target means that there must be a victim for there to be a crime; when there is a victimless crime it is based on a larger scale and the entire state or community is the victim. By place we mean the place where an act contrary to the law which would constitute a crime occurred. The four elements of crime are focused in environmental criminology. Environmental criminology focuses on the study of the discipline of criminology, the relationships between individual environments in which crimes occur, and how they influence criminal activity. Environmental criminologists focus on the fourth element of the “place” of crime, this field developed in the 1980s. Some of the things that environmentalists focus on are the elements within the place and not the geographic location. They look for data on the time and place where the crime occurred, this helps police officers and law enforcement officials have a clearer understanding of the crime