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Crime and Everyday Life
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Crime and Everyday Life
A Brief Introduction

Sixth Edition


October 2018 | 184 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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.
 
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

“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

“This is a well-written textbook, providing information on how to effectively reduce crime. I love the way the text is structured and the examples used to support material covered in each chapter. The text is well-written, easy for students to follow, and overall, just an interesting text.”

James L. Wright
Dalton State College

Crime and Everyday Life is a text with a down-to-earth approach to crime causation and crime prevention. The book is relatable to students interested in pursuing careers in law enforcement, social work, counseling, teaching, urban planning, and many other professions not typically thought of as being related to crime.”

Luis F. Nuño
California State University at Los Angeles

“It’s very accessible to a wide array of students.”

Michael S. Barton
Louisiana State University

“This text is fun to read—it's seamless, light, and readable while remaining the most informative text out there for around two decades. Material in this text sticks with students. I've said it for years, this is the one book criminal justice students must read.”

Shawna Cleary
University of Central Oklahoma

Marcus K. 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,... More About Author

Mary A. Eckert

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... More About Author

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