"Introductory Criminology: The Study of Risky Situations takes a unique and intuitive approach to teaching and learning criminology. Avoiding the fragmentation of ideas commonly found in criminology textbooks, Marcus Felson and Mary A. Eckert develop a more practical, readable structure that engages the reader and enhances their understanding of the material. Their descriptive categories, simultaneously broad and realistic, serve better ..."
" Two new criminological approaches are defined and applied to categories of crime in Routine Activity and Rational Choice, now available in paperback. Routine activity analyzes the criminal event, and avoids motivations and psychology as topics for discussion, whereas rational choice approaches crime as purposive behavior designed to meet the offender's commonplace needs, such as money, status, sex, and excitement. These conceptual mode ..."
Crime and Everyday Life(4th Edition) Insights and Implications for Society (The Pine Forge Press Social Science Library) by MarcusFelson Paperback, 169 Pages, Published 1994 by Pine Forge Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8039-9029-6, ISBN: 0-8039-9029-4
"Provocatively written and thoroughly researched, Crime and Everyday Life is the perfect supplementary text for your introductory criminology or criminal justice courses. While traditional texts focus on the factors causing individuals to commit crime, Crime and Everyday Life provides an insightful analysis of the "other side" of crime causation, examining how society encourages or inhibits crime in the routine activities of everyday lif ..."
"In papers delivered at a conference co-sponsored by the U.S. National Institute of Justice and Rutgers University, scholars and business analysts explore how criminological knowledge can help prevent crimes by and against businesses. Topics include: the impact of crime on business; preventing retail thefts; prevention and the auto industry; making crime prevention pay; public-private partnerships; crime prevention and the insurance indu ..."
"Introductory Criminology: The Study of Risky Situations takes a unique and intuitive approach to teaching and learning criminology. Avoiding the fragmentation of ideas commonly found in criminology textbooks, Marcus Felson and Mary A. Eckert develop a more practical, readable structure that engages the reader and enhances their understanding of the material. Their descriptive categories, simultaneously broad and realistic, serve better ..."
BUNDLE(1st Edition) Walsh: Introduction to Criminology: A Text/Reader, 4e (Paperback) + Felson: Crime and Everyday Life: A Brief Introduction, 6e (Paperback) by MarcusFelson, Anthony Walsh Paperback, Published 2019 by Sage Publications, Inc ISBN-13: 978-1-5443-5322-7, ISBN: 1-5443-5322-7
"This bundle includes Felson: Crime and Everyday Life: A Brief Introduction, 6e (Paperback) and Walsh: Introduction to Criminology: A Text/Reader, 4e (Paperback)"
"Use the Street View in Google Maps to capture images of some buildings from
past stages of history. What stage produced ... Book review: Crime and Everyday
Life by Marcus Felson and Mary Eckert. Crime Science, 5e(1), 10. 5. See various
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"Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006048004 Library of Congress
Cataloging-in-Publication Data Chisholm, Michael, 1931– Rural settlement and
land use / Michael Chisholm. p. Cm. Originally published: Chicago: Aldine Pub.
1st U.S. ed ..."
"319– 43. A. Demangeon, Problèmes de Géographie Humaine, 3rd edition, 1947,
pp. 366–8; Annales de Géographie, 1926, pp. 155–73. J. E. de Young, Village
Life in Modern Thailand, 1955, pp. 10–11. N. L. Whetten, Rural Mexico, 1948, p."
"Bichler, G., Malm, A., & Enriquez, J. (2014). Magnetic facilities: Identifying the
convergence settings of juvenile delinquents. Crime and Delinquency, 60(7), 971
–998. Andresen, M. A., & Felson, M. (2010). The impact of co-offending. British
Journal of Criminology, 50(1), 66–81. Roman, C. G. (2004). Schools,
neighborhoods, and violence: Crime within the daily routines of youth. Boston:
Lexington Books. Felson, R. B., Savolainen, J. ..."
"“Offender convergence settings” are places where offenders spend time before or
after committing crimes (M. Felson, 2003). Thus a certain mall or corner might
have a handful of teenagers hanging out every afternoon, even if they are not
always the same ones. In the gang chapter (following this one) I discuss whether
youth hangouts and gang hangouts are different. Professor Gisela Bichler and
colleagues (Bichler, 2010; Bichler, Chri ..."
"Danielle Reynald is a faculty member at Griffith University in Australia. While still
a doctoral student in the Netherlands, she developed a remarkable method for
studying local risk of crime. It's so simple. She visited each home address, walked
..."
"Marcus Felson has been a leader in crime theory and crime science, and his name has become synonymous with routine activity theory. This volume provides a rich collection of essays that honour the work of Marcus Felson, acknowledging his pioneering work whilst also making a substantive original contribution to the field. Bringing together some of the foremost thinkers in criminology today, alongside former students of Felson and those m ..."
Crime Dynamics by MarcusFelson Paperback, Published 2012 ISBN-13: 978-1-4129-8981-7, ISBN: 1-4129-8981-7
"In R. V. Clarke (Ed.), Situational crime prevention: Successful case studies (2nd
ed., pp. ... The empirical status of Gottfredson and Hirschi's general theory of
crime: A meta-analysis. Criminology, 38(3), 931–964. Pred, A. (Ed.). (1981).
Space and time in geography: Essays dedicated to Torsten Hagerstrand. Lund ...
Police Practice and Research, 5(1), 5–23. ... Rengert, G. F., Mattson, M. T., &
Henderson, K. D. (2001) ... The mism ..."