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Crime and Everyday Life Marcus Felson

Crime and Everyday Life By Marcus Felson

Crime and Everyday Life by Marcus Felson

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Crime and Everyday Life is written in a clear, concise style and the authors unique approach to crime causation is popular with lecturers and students. This Third Edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include such new chapters as white-collar crime and the use of technology in crime control.

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Crime and Everyday Life by Marcus Felson

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Previous editions of Crime and Everyday Life have been popular with students and instructors for Felson's clear, concise writing style and his unique approach to crime causation. The Third Edition has been thoroughly revised and updated throughout, and includes, among other changes, new chapters on white-collar crime and the use of technology in crime control. By emphasizing that routine everyday activities set the stage for illegal activities (i.e. stolen goods sold in a legal business setting), Felson challenges the conventional wisdom and offers a unique perspective and novel solutions for reducing crime. Students in introductory criminology and criminal justice courses will discover that simple and inexpensive changes in the physical environment and patterns of everyday activity can often produce substantial decreases in crime rates. Insightful, yet fun to read, this new edition of Crime and Everyday Life is sure to provoke students to look at the causes and control of crime with a fresh perspective...and renewed hope.

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Crime and Everyday Life is short, easy to read, useful in a classroom setting, well organized, and logical in its presentation. It adds to the literature on criminology and gives validity to routine activities theory as a cogent and up-to-date explanation of crime. Whether fueling wide-ranging discussions on theory building, illustrating the practical application and usefulness of crime theory to everyday life, dispelling myths that limit hypothesizing and obscure fundamental truths about offending, or just offering consumers a good read, the book speaks definitively to the issue of crime causation. -- E. Frances Rees

About Marcus Felson

Marcus Felson is the originator of the routine activity approach and of Crime and Everyday Life. He has also authored Crime and Nature, and serves as professor at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. He has a B.A. from University of Chicago, an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, and has received the 2014 Honoris Causa from the Universidad Miguel Hernandez in Spain. Professor Felson has been given the Ronald Clarke Award by the Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis group, and the Paul Tappan Award of the Western Society of Criminology. He has been a guest lecturer in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Ecuador, El Salvador, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Scotland, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, and Switzerland. He has applied routine activity thinking to many topics, including theft, violence, child molestation, white-collar crime, and corruption.

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments 1. Ten Fallacies About Crime The Dramatic Fallacy The Cops-and-Courts Fallacy The Not-Me Fallacy The Innocent-Youth Fallacy The Ingenuity Fallacy The Organized-Crime Fallacy The Juvenile-Gang Fallacy The Welfare-State Fallacy The Agenda Fallacy The Whatever-You-Think Fallacy Conclusion Main Points Projects and Challenges 2. Chemistry for Crime The Setting The Elements of a Criminal Act Calming the Waters and Looking After Places Hot Products Craving Violent Targets The General Chemistry of Crime Conclusion Main Points Projects and Challenges 3. Crime Decisions The Decision to Commit a Crime How Offender Decisions Respond to Control Making Sense of Crimes That Seem Irrational Social Roles, Ties, and Crime Conclusion Main Points Projects and Challenges 4. Bringing Crime to You Four Stages in the History of Everyday Life Life and Crime in the Convergent City Crime and the Divergent Metropolis Real Life Outgrows Five Stages Population Density, Shifts, and Crime Patterns Concentrated Advantage for Committing Crime Conclusion Main Points Projects and Challenges 5. Marketing Stolen Goods The Thief and the Public Inviting People to Steal More It's Easier to Sell Stolen Goods to the Poor Conclusion Main Points Projects and Challenges 6. Crime, Growth, and Youth Activities Youth and Conventional Roles in the Past The Changing Position of Youth Adolescent Circulation and Crime Involvement Schools and Crime The Central Role of School Size Parental Trials and Errors Conclusion Main Points Projects and Challenges 7. White-Collar Crime What White-Collar Crime Really Is How Specialized Access Permits Crime How to Prevent Crimes of Specialized Access Conclusion Main Points Projects and Challenges 8. One Crime Feeds Another The Interplay of Illegal Markets The Offender's Slippery Slope Victimization Spawns More Crime Quick Links Among Offenses Crime Links in Local Settings The System Dynamics of Crime Conclusion Main Points Projects and Challenges 9. Local Design Against Crime Important Ideas for Designing Out Crime Environmental Criminology: A Larger Field Residential Crime Prevention Other Methods for Designing Out Crime Conclusion Main Points Projects and Challenges 10. Situational Crime Prevention Situational Prevention and Crime Science Preventing Property Crime Preventing Violent Crime Preventing Drunk Driving Preventing Fraud Preventing Repeat Victimization Conclusion Main Points Projects and Challenges 11. Crime Science and Everyday Life A Tangible Theory of Crime Criminology in Transition The Challenge of Crime Science Many Ways to Learn About Crime Conclusion Appendix References Index

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GOR001428789
9780761987611
0761987614
Crime and Everyday Life by Marcus Felson
Marcus Felson
Used - Very Good
Paperback
SAGE Publications Inc
20020315
224
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