Crime and Everyday Life

By Marcus Felson

Book Overview

Crime and Everyday Life, Fourth Edition, provides an illuminating glimpse into the roots of criminal behavior, explaining how crime can touch us all in both small and large ways. This innovative text shows how opportunity is a necessary condition for crime to occur, while exploring realistic ways to reduce or eliminate crime and criminal behavior by removing the opportunity to complete the act. Encouraging students to take a closer look at the true nature of crime and its effects on their lives, author Marcus Felson and new coauthor Rachel L. Boba (an expert on crime prevention, crime analysis and mapping, and school safety) maintain the book's engaging, readable, and informative style, while incorporating the most current research on criminal behavior and routine activity theory. The authors emphasize that routine daily activities set the stage for illegal acts, thus challenging conventional wisdom and offering students a fresh perspective, novel solutions for reducing crime...and renewed hope. New and Proven Features The book includes new coverage of gangs, bar problems, and barhopping; new discussion of the dynamic crime triang and expanded coverage of technology, Internet fraud, identity theft, and other Internet pitfalls The now-famous "fallacies about crime" are reduced to nine and are organized and explained even more clearly than in past editions The authors offer updated research on crime as well as new examples of practical application of theory, with the most current crime and victimization statistics throughout The text features POP (Problem-Oriented Policing) Center guidelines and citations, including Closing Streets and Alleys to Reduce Crime, Speeding in Residential Areas, Robbery of Convenience Stores, and use of the Situational Crime Prevention Evaluation Database Updated "Projects and Challenges" appear at the end of each chapter Intended Audience This supplemental text adds a colorful perspective and enriches classroom discussion for courses in Criminological Theory, Introduction to Criminal Justice, and Introductory Criminology. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803990979
• ISBN13: 9780803990975
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

An enlightenment on crime

This book opens your eyes to everyday crime around you. After reading it you will find yourself noticing high crime areas that you did not notice before. It shows you in detail what to look for and what you can expect to find in these areas. How in everyday life the things we do without thinking about them can cause crime. An excellent read.

changed my week

Before I read this, crime was just a weekend hobby, now I am fully appraised in the criminal mind, and can carry out some very profitable raids every day of the week. My favorite was chapter 5: inviting people to steal more. Which has really opened my eyes to what shops are easiest to hit. I will soon have that wedding paid for.

An introductory and straightforward survey

Now in a revised and updated third edition featuring new chapters on white-color crime and the use of technology in crime control, Crime And Everyday Life by criminologist and academician Marcus Felson (Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice) offers an introductory and straightforward survey, analysis, and correction of the most commonly held fallacies about contemporary crime, including the exact nature of crime itself ranging from violent offenses to property crimes, situational crime prevention, and more. Crime And Everyday Life looks at both the practical realities of crime (including the processes that create it), and offers a warning against human tendencies to erroneously link crime's causes to stray political agendas. Very highly recommended reading, Crime And Everyday Life is appropriate for non-specialist general readers with an interest in the causes of contemporary criminal conduct, as well as those student formally studying criminology as part of a Social Sciences curriculum.