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Crime and Everyday Life, Fourth Edition, provides an illuminating glimpse into 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 co-author 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
Includes new coverage of gangs, bar problems, and barhopping; new discussion of the dynamic crime triangle; 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; Offers updated research on crime as well as new examples of practical application of theory, with the most current crime and victimization statistics throughout; 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” 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.
Chemistry for Crime
Chemistry for Crime
The whole is more than the sum of its parts. In a school science class, you may have mixed baking soda, vinegar, and dish detergent, producing a small eruption. Mixes make surprises for crime, too, for people mix in different ways.
- Two “innocuous” individuals mix badly, getting into a fight.
- Two drug sellers compete, with one driving the other out of business, even away from crime.
- Two teenagers who behave well in the presence of parents get drunk and wild when together.
- A middle-aged man, conventional at work, gets caught somewhere else with his pants down.
Many people are volatile and reactive. Almost everyone has ups and downs, ins and outs, feelings of anger and calm, moods of conformity and defiance, and legal and illegal ...
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