Crime and Everyday Life
A Brief Introduction
Sixth Edition
Marcus Felson
- Texas State University, USA
Mary A. Eckert
- MA Eckert Consulting, LLC
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Crime and Everyday Life offers a bold approach to crime theory and crime reduction. Using a clear, engaging, and streamlined writing style, the Sixth Edition illuminates the causes of criminal behavior, showing how crime can affect everyone in both small and large ways. Renowned authors Marcus Felson and Mary Eckert then offer realistic ways to reduce or eliminate crime and criminal behavior in specific settings by removing the opportunity to complete the act. Most importantly, this book teaches students how to think about crime, and then do something about it.
Contents
Preface to the Sixth Edition
Preface to the Sixth Edition
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
- 1. Eight Fallacies About Crime
- The Dramatic Fallacy
- The Cops-and-Courts Fallacy
- The Not-Me Fallacy
- The Innocent-Youth Fallacy
- The Ingenuity Fallacy
- The Formally Organized Crime Fallacy
- The Big Gang Fallacy
- The Agenda Fallacy
- Conclusion
- Main Points
- Projects and Challenges
- Endnotes
- 2. The Chemistry for Crime
- Risky Settings
- Stages of a Criminal Act
- First Three Elements of a Criminal Act
- Eck’s Crime Triangle
- Predatory Crimes
- Calming the Waters and Looking After Places
- Hot Products
- The General Chemistry of Crime
- Conclusion
- Main Points
- Projects and Challenges
- Endnotes
- 3. Offenders Make Decisions
- The Decision to Commit a Crime
- How Violence Erupts
- Conclusion
- Main Points
- Projects and Challenges
- Endnotes
- 4. Bringing Crime to You
- Stages in the History of Everyday Life
- Life and Crime in the Convergent City
- Crime and the Divergent Metropolis
- Crime in the Cyber Age
- Conclusion
- Main Points
- Projects and Challenges
- Endnotes
- 5. Teenage Crime
- Muscles, Babies, and the Historical Role for Youths
- Modern Role for Youths
- Hour-for-Hour Risks
- Time With Peers
- Parental Efforts to Delay Peer Dominance
- Conclusion
- Main Points
- Projects and Challenges
- Endnotes
- 6. Big Gang Theory
- Defining Gang Crimes
- Big Gang Theory
- Confusion About Gangs
- The Reason for a Gang
- Conclusion
- Main Points
- Projects and Challenges
- Endnotes
- 7. How Crime Multiplies
- Crime Multipliers
- Moving Stolen Goods
- Conclusion
- Main Points
- Projects and Challenges
- Endnotes
- 8. Situational Crime Prevention
- Four Natural Experiments
- Crime Analysis Today
- Diverse Applications of Situational Crime Prevention
- Conclusion
- Main Points
- Projects and Challenges
- Endnotes
- 9. Local Design Against Crime
- Securing Communities
- The Offender–Target Convergence Process
- Seven Studies in Reducing Local Crime
- Conclusion
- Main Points
- Projects and Challenges
- Endnotes
- 10. The Age of Exposure
- Organizational Exposure
- Crimes of Specialized Access
- Electronic Exposures
- Technological Leaps and Cultural Lags
- Conclusion
- Endnotes
Index
Index
Additional materials
Description
Crime and Everyday Life offers a bold approach to crime theory and crime reduction. Using a clear, engaging, and streamlined writing style, the Sixth Edition illuminates the causes of criminal behavior, showing how crime can affect everyone in both small and large ways. Renowned authors Marcus Felson and Mary Eckert then offer realistic ways to reduce or eliminate crime and criminal behavior in specific settings by removing the opportunity to complete the act. Most importantly, this book teaches students how to think about crime, and then do something about it.
Contents
Preface to the Sixth Edition
Preface to the Sixth Edition
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
- 1. Eight Fallacies About Crime
- The Dramatic Fallacy
- The Cops-and-Courts Fallacy
- The Not-Me Fallacy
- The Innocent-Youth Fallacy
- The Ingenuity Fallacy
- The Formally Organized Crime Fallacy
- The Big Gang Fallacy
- The Agenda Fallacy
- Conclusion
- Main Points
- Projects and Challenges
- Endnotes
- 2. The Chemistry for Crime
- Risky Settings
- Stages of a Criminal Act
- First Three Elements of a Criminal Act
- Eck’s Crime Triangle
- Predatory Crimes
- Calming the Waters and Looking After Places
- Hot Products
- The General Chemistry of Crime
- Conclusion
- Main Points
- Projects and Challenges
- Endnotes
- 3. Offenders Make Decisions
- The Decision to Commit a Crime
- How Violence Erupts
- Conclusion
- Main Points
- Projects and Challenges
- Endnotes
- 4. Bringing Crime to You
- Stages in the History of Everyday Life
- Life and Crime in the Convergent City
- Crime and the Divergent Metropolis
- Crime in the Cyber Age
- Conclusion
- Main Points
- Projects and Challenges
- Endnotes
- 5. Teenage Crime
- Muscles, Babies, and the Historical Role for Youths
- Modern Role for Youths
- Hour-for-Hour Risks
- Time With Peers
- Parental Efforts to Delay Peer Dominance
- Conclusion
- Main Points
- Projects and Challenges
- Endnotes
- 6. Big Gang Theory
- Defining Gang Crimes
- Big Gang Theory
- Confusion About Gangs
- The Reason for a Gang
- Conclusion
- Main Points
- Projects and Challenges
- Endnotes
- 7. How Crime Multiplies
- Crime Multipliers
- Moving Stolen Goods
- Conclusion
- Main Points
- Projects and Challenges
- Endnotes
- 8. Situational Crime Prevention
- Four Natural Experiments
- Crime Analysis Today
- Diverse Applications of Situational Crime Prevention
- Conclusion
- Main Points
- Projects and Challenges
- Endnotes
- 9. Local Design Against Crime
- Securing Communities
- The Offender–Target Convergence Process
- Seven Studies in Reducing Local Crime
- Conclusion
- Main Points
- Projects and Challenges
- Endnotes
- 10. The Age of Exposure
- Organizational Exposure
- Crimes of Specialized Access
- Electronic Exposures
- Technological Leaps and Cultural Lags
- Conclusion
- Endnotes
Index
Index
Additional materials
Reviews
October 2018 | 184 pages | Sage US
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Crime and Everyday Life offers a bold approach to crime theory and crime reduction. Using a clear, engaging, and streamlined writing style, the Sixth Edition illuminates the causes of criminal behavior, showing how crime can affect everyone in both small and large ways. Renowned authors Marcus Felson and Mary Eckert then offer realistic ways to reduce or eliminate crime and criminal behavior in specific settings by removing the opportunity to complete the act. Most importantly, this book teaches students how to think about crime, and then do something about it.
Table Of Contents:
- Preface to the Sixth Edition
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- 1. Eight Fallacies About Crime
- The Dramatic Fallacy
- The Cops-and-Courts Fallacy
- The Not-Me Fallacy
- The Innocent-Youth Fallacy
- The Ingenuity Fallacy
- The Formally Organized Crime Fallacy
- The Big Gang Fallacy
- The Agenda Fallacy
- Conclusion
- Main Points
- Projects and Challenges
- Endnotes
- 2. The Chemistry for Crime
- Risky Settings
- Stages of a Criminal Act
- First Three Elements of a Criminal Act
- Eck’s Crime Triangle
- Predatory Crimes
- Calming the Waters and Looking After Places
- Hot Products
- The General Chemistry of Crime
- Conclusion
- Main Points
- Projects and Challenges
- Endnotes
- 3. Offenders Make Decisions
- The Decision to Commit a Crime
- How Violence Erupts
- Conclusion
- Main Points
- Projects and Challenges
- Endnotes
- 4. Bringing Crime to You
- Stages in the History of Everyday Life
- Life and Crime in the Convergent City
- Crime and the Divergent Metropolis
- Crime in the Cyber Age
- Conclusion
- Main Points
- Projects and Challenges
- Endnotes
- 5. Teenage Crime
- Muscles, Babies, and the Historical Role for Youths
- Modern Role for Youths
- Hour-for-Hour Risks
- Time With Peers
- Parental Efforts to Delay Peer Dominance
- Conclusion
- Main Points
- Projects and Challenges
- Endnotes
- 6. Big Gang Theory
- Defining Gang Crimes
- Big Gang Theory
- Confusion About Gangs
- The Reason for a Gang
- Conclusion
- Main Points
- Projects and Challenges
- Endnotes
- 7. How Crime Multiplies
- Crime Multipliers
- Moving Stolen Goods
- Conclusion
- Main Points
- Projects and Challenges
- Endnotes
- 8. Situational Crime Prevention
- Four Natural Experiments
- Crime Analysis Today
- Diverse Applications of Situational Crime Prevention
- Conclusion
- Main Points
- Projects and Challenges
- Endnotes
- 9. Local Design Against Crime
- Securing Communities
- The Offender–Target Convergence Process
- Seven Studies in Reducing Local Crime
- Conclusion
- Main Points
- Projects and Challenges
- Endnotes
- 10. The Age of Exposure
- Organizational Exposure
- Crimes of Specialized Access
- Electronic Exposures
- Technological Leaps and Cultural Lags
- Conclusion
- Endnotes
- Index
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“A brief easy-to-read book on crime and crime prevention based on the routine activity approach and opportunity theory.”
Ellen G. Cohn, Ph.D., Florida International University
“A concise, intuitive, and well-written book that could be used as a text in crime analysis courses or as a supplementary reading in course such as criminology or nature of crime.”
Daniel Osborne, Empire State College
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Luis F. Nuño, California State University at Los Angeles
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