Crime and Everyday Life

Crime and Everyday Life, Fifth Edition, offers a bold approach to crime theory and crime reduction. The text shows how crime opportunity is a necessary condition for illegal acts to occur. The authors offer realistic, often common-sense, ways to reduce or eliminate crime and criminal behavior in specific settings by removing the opportunity to complete the act. Using a clear and engaging writing style, author Marcus Felson and new co-author Mary Eckert talk directly to the student about criminal behavior, the routine activity approach, and specific crime reduction ideas. The authors emphasize how routine daily activities set the stage for illegal acts -- offering fascinating new ideas and examples not presented in earlier editions. Most importantly, this book teaches the student how to think about crime, and then do something about it.

• A Country Called Prison: Mass Incarceration and the Making of a New Nation
• Criminological Theory (7th Edition)
• Armed Robbers In Action: Stickups and Street Culture (Northeastern Series in Criminal Behavior)
• Crime and Criminal Justice in America
• Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
• Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations
• Crime Types: A Text Reader, Second Edition (Aspen College)
• The Mismeasure of Crime (Volume 2)
• On Crimes and Punishments (Hackett Classics)
• Introduction to Criminal Justice: Practice and Process