Analysis Of Crime And Everyday Life

Crime and Everyday Life chapter two, The Chemistry for Crime outlines the various components of a crime. Noting that offenders are just one small element to any crime. In all honesty offenders are a variable waiting for time that all the elements are in place. Violent, predatory crimes only occur while an absence of guardians around a target. Clarke named the check list for a target or hot product as, concealable, removable, available, valuable, enjoyable, and disposable. Equally, fights develop in the absence of peacemakers and a present crowd. Illegal sales crime all depend on the setting that offers coverage and removed management. The Chemistry for Crime argues that everyday life tempts as well as diminishes the potential for crime, influencing

Illegal Markets can be deemed as secondary social groups, with their complex social structure and social interaction between each group. Such example could be during and drug sale with the interaction between the dealer and the client. Sociology in Our Times introduces that, “Social structure gives us the ability to interpret the social situations we encounter.”(Kendall 123) Thus, the social structure and the social interaction is already present and built around the known setting. Class system have different effects on the setting of crime scenes. Kendall describes class system as a “types of stratification based on the ownership…” (Kendall 225) so different classes have various, and differential ownership. Upper class and even upper middle class will have ownership of more hot products, things that hit all the check marks; concealable, removable, available, valuable, enjoyable, and disposable. But this doesn’t mean that the upper class is stolen from the most. Those in the upper class families are more likely to have stay at home moms who can act as guardians of their setting and hot products. Offenders wish for a target “who look like an easy purse-snatch” (Felson/Boba), or in other words the subordinate to they’re dominate. Offenders understand that the target will be easier to acquire if that target is weak. Furthermore the target could be safe if surrounded by dominate