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Crime and Everyday Life

Crime and Everyday Life

by Marcus Felson (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

    $3.47
Synopsis

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.

Felson challenges the conventional wisdom and offers his perspective and solutions to reducing crime through such changes as physical environments and patterns of everyday life.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Edition: Third Edition
 Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
Published: 15 Mar 2002
ISBN 10: 0761987614
ISBN 13: 9780761987611

Media Reviews
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
Author Bio
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.