Crime and Everyday Life (eBook)

A Brief Introduction

Marcus Felson, Mary A. A. Eckert (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018 | 6., Sixth Edition
184 Seiten
Sage Publications (Verlag)
978-1-5063-9479-4 (ISBN)

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: Thousand Oaks
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: criminal justice • Criminology • Criminology & Criminal Justice • Cyberage Crime • cybercrime
• ISBN-10: 1-5063-9479-5 / 1506394795
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5063-9479-4 / 9781506394794