Crime And Everyday Life By Marcus Felson And Mary A.

Summary

In Marcus Felson and Mary A. Eckert’s book Crime & Everyday Life, we are given a critical look into vast ideologies which is our approach to analyzing crime. The book offers the reader plentiful realities in hopes of presenting us with the truths about criminal behavior and the process of applying an investigative approach. As a society, we are ever-changing by consistently applying newly adopted societal norms in hopes of maintaining autonomy and security. This has led to this book being founded on the construct of creating theories and the process of applying them so we can socially conform by augmenting a greater comprehensive approach to the apparatus that is a crime.

Therefore, when first diving into the book I was compelled

This illustrates how one may measure crime and the persuasion or influence it has on the commitment of future crimes. Virtually all offenders have strong incentives to cover up the first offense (Felson & Eckert, 2019, p. 96). By saying this Felson and Eckert are trying to allude to how the crime multiplier is utilized by measuring the probability of future crimes that can occur just from the initial crime that transpired. For example, an illegal drug process might set in motion a chain of at least six or seven illegal acts, which multiples the crimes and sparks implications that put a hindrance or implicate the legal proceedings ( Felson & Eckert, 2019, p. 96). Another way we can look at the crime multiplier is through the lens of Jan van Dijk. Dijkis known as the leading criminologist in the Netherlands and one thing the Netherlands excels at is the criminal justice apparatus. As they are known for their crime control, crime reduction, and rehabilitative approach that surpasses expectations. However, Dijk has a model that is represented through a chain of bike thefts where if one individual’s bike is stolen then that individual will proceed to steal someone else’s bike and so on. This model can be correlated directly back to the United States, where it is represented through burglary, auto part theft, and theft that occurs in a campus setting. Nevertheless, this led to Felson and Eckert discussing how removing crime can groom a shift that propels a reduction of crime because removing one singularity can impact a future one. Meaning putting an end to one criminal act now can hinder more future crime down the road that otherwise would’ve likely