Crime and Everyday Life : A Brief Introduction /: A Brief Introduction. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Marcus Felson, Mary A. Eckert.
• Authors: Felson, Marcus; Eckert, Mary A
• Contents: 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; 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; Offenders Make Decisions; The Decision to Commit a Crime; How Violence Erupts; 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; 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; Big Gang Theory; Defining Gang Crimes; Big Gang Theory; Confusion about Gangs; The Reason for a Gang; How Crime Multiplies; Crime Multipliers; Moving Stolen Goods; Situational Crime Prevention; Four Natural Experiments; Crime Analysis Today; Diverse Applications of Situational Crime Prevention; Local Design Against Crime; Securing Communities; The Offender-Target Convergence Process; Seven Studies in Reducing Local Crime; The Age of Exposure; Organizational Exposure; Crimes of Specialized Access; Electronic Exposures; Technological Leaps and Cultural Lags
• Edition: 6th
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (178 pages)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781506394824; 1506394825
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.