Crime and Everyday Life

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SAGE, 2002 M01 28 - 211 páginas
Crime and Everyday Life, Fourth Edition, provides an illuminating glimpse into the 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 coauthor 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 The book includes new coverage of gangs, bar problems, and barhopping; new discussion of the dynamic crime triang 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 The authors offer updated research on crime as well as new examples of practical application of theory, with the most current crime and victimization statistics throughout The text 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" appear 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. Book jacket.

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Ten Fallacies About Crime
1
2 The CopsandCourts Fallacy
3
3 The NotMe Fallacy
6
4 The InnocentYouth Fallacy
7
5 The Ingenuity Fallacy
9
6 The OrganizedCrime Fallacy
10
7 The JuvenileGang Fallacy
11
8 The WelfareState Fallacy
12
Schools and Crime
84
The Central Role of School Size
86
Parental Trials and Errors
88
Conclusion
91
WhiteCollar Crime
93
What WhiteCollar Crime Really Is
94
How Specialized Access Permits Crime
98
Conclusion
102

9 The Agenda Fallacy
14
10 The WhateverYouThink Fallacy
17
Conclusion
18
Projects and Challenges
19
Chemistry for Crime
20
The Elements of a Criminal Act
21
Calming the Waters and Looking After Places
27
Hot Products
28
Craving Violent Targets
32
The General Chemistry of Crime
33
Conclusion
34
Main Points
35
Crime Decisions
37
How Offender Decisions Respond to Controls
40
Making Sense of Crimes That Seem Irrational
44
Social Roles Ties and Crime
47
Conclusion
50
Projects and Challenges
51
Bringing Crime to You
52
Life and Crime in the Convergent City
53
Crime and the Divergent Metropolis
57
Real Life Outgrows Four Stages
59
Population Density Shifts and Crime Patterns
61
Concentrated Advantage for Committing Crime
65
Conclusion
67
Main Points
68
Marketing Stolen Goods
70
The Thief and the Public
71
Inviting People to Steal More
73
Its Easier to Sell Stolen Goods to the Poor
74
Conclusion
76
Main Points
77
Crime Growth and Youth Activities
79
The Changing Position of Youth
80
Adolescent Circulation and Crime Involvement
83
Main Points
103
One Crime Feeds Another
105
The Interplay of Illegal Markets
106
Quick Links Among Offenses
108
Crime Links in Local Settings
110
The System Dynamics of Crime
116
Conclusion
117
Main Points
118
Local Design Against Crime
120
Important Ideas for Designing Out Crime
121
A Larger Field
122
Residential Crime Prevention
129
Other Methods for Designing Out Crime
135
Conclusion
142
Projects and Challenges
143
Situational Crime Prevention
144
Situational Prevention and Crime Science
145
Preventing Property Crime
146
Preventing Violent Crime
153
Preventing Drunk Driving
159
Preventing Fraud
160
Preventing Repeat Victimization
161
Conclusion
162
Main Points
163
Crime Science and Everyday Life
165
Criminology in Transition
168
The Challenge of Crime Science
169
Many Ways to Learn About Crime
171
Conclusion
175
Appendix
177
References
179
Index
202
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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.

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