Crime and Everyday Life

3rd Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-7619-8761-1
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 304 g

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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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Felson, Marcus

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Felson, Marcus
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.