Marcus Felson & Mary A. Eckert 
Crime and Everyday Life [EPUB ebook] 
A Brief Introduction

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 Content

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

About the author

Mary A. Eckert has an M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from New York University. Her B.A. is from the College of New Rochelle. Dr. Eckert has devoted an active career to applied research in criminal justice and program evaluation. She served as research director of the New York City Criminal Justice Agency, Inc., where she authored many research reports and guided that agency’s diverse research agenda, including work on pretrial risk assessment, court-case processing, and evaluating alternative-to-incarceration programs. She also worked for the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General, with a special focus on statistical evaluation of vehicle stops to assist the New Jersey State Police in reducing the potential for racial profiling. Her work has been recognized by the New York Association of Pretrial Service Agencies and the State of New Jersey. She has been an adjunct professor at New York University, Montclair State University, and Texas State University.