Synopses & Reviews
Crime and Everyday Life show a most readable fashion how everyday life generates opportunities for crime to occur while also providing chances to prevent it. It demonstrates: why crimes goes up and down, how poverty and disorder relate to crime, and how to reduce crime in a realistic way. Felson emphasizes that crime is highly tangible and very much generated by the opportunity to carry it out; he also incorporates current research that shows how criminal opportunity leads people to commit crime. This book covers many practical, positive and inexpensive solutions on ways to reduce and control crime.
Synopsis
Entertainingly written and a model for how theory develops from empirical evidence, the Second Edition of this popular book is the perfect supplementary text for introductory criminology courses. The book provides an insightful analysis of the other side of crime causation, examining how society encourages or inhibits crime in the routine activities of everyday life.