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Crime and everyday life
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Crime and everyday life

Marcus Felson

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Previous edition: published as by Marcus Felson and Rachel Boba. 2010.Applications of Situational Crime Prevention
Chapter 11: Local Design Against Crime
Remarkable Research on Local Supervision
Oscar Newman’s Four Types of Space
Versions of a Village
The Offender-Target Convergence Process
Seven Studies in Reducing Local Crime
Chapter 12: “White-Collar" Crime
How Offenders Get to Their Targets
Crimes of Specialized Access
Organizational Rank
The Specialized-Access Crime Grid
Chapter 13: Crime and Social Change
Technology, Rightly Understood
The Clean Water Example
A General Approach: Summing Up This Book
How to Think about Changing Crime
References
Index

Contents

Preface to the Fifth Edition
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Chapter 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 Organized Crime Fallacy
The Big Gang Fallacy
The Agenda Fallacy
Chapter 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
Chapter 3: Offenders Make Decisions
The Decision to Commit a Crime
Offenders Respond to Everyday Cues
Odd and Bizarre Crimes
Chapter 4: How Violence Erupts
Making Students Angry in a Lab
In Real Life
Fights vs. Predatory Attacks
Violent Decisions
It Might Not Work Out Well
Chapter 5: Bringing Crime to You
Four Stages in the History of Everyday Life
Life and Crime in the Convergent City
Crime and the Divergent Metropolis
Population Density, Shifts, and Patterns of Crime
The Great Paradox: Central City Problems Versus Self-Report Evidence
Chapter 6: Teenage Crime
Perspective on Youth Crime
Teenage Zigzags
Chapter 7: Big Gang Theory
What are Gang Crimes?
Fundamentals
The Puzzle
The Reason for a Gang
Chapter 8: Crime Multipliers
One Crime Requires Another
One Crime Disinhibits Another
One Crime Advertises Another
One Crime Entices Another
One Crime Sets Up Another
One Crime Escalates Into Another
One Crime Starts A Victim Chain
One Co-Offender Attacks Another
Chapter 9: Moving Stolen Goods
The Thief and the Public
Inviting People to Steal More
It’s Easier to Sell Stolen Goods to the Poor
New Avenues for Stolen Goods
Chapter 10: Situational Crime Prevention
Four Natural Experiments
Situational Prevention and Crime Analysis
Diverse

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