Crime and Everyday Life: A Brief Introduction

About Marcus FelsonMary A. Eckert

Marcus Felson is the originator of the routine activity approach and of Crime and Everyday Life. He has also authored Crime and Nature and serves as professor at Texas State University in San Marcos Texas. He has a B.A. from University of Chicago an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and has received the 2014 Honoris Causa from the Universidad Miguel Hernandez in Spain. Professor Felson has been given the Ronald Clarke Award by the Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis group and the Paul Tappan Award of the Western Society of Criminology. He has been a guest lecturer in Argentina Australia Belgium Brazil Canada Chile China Denmark Ecuador El Salvador England Estonia Finland France Germany Hong Kong Hungary Italy Japan Mexico the Netherlands New Zealand Norway Poland Scotland Spain South Africa Sweden and Switzerland. He has applied routine activity thinking to many topics including theft violence child molestation white-collar crime and corruption. Mary A. Eckert has an M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from New York University. Her B.A. is from the College of New Rochelle. Dr. Eckert has devoted an active career to applied research in criminal justice and program evaluation. She served as research director of the New York City Criminal Justice Agency Inc. where she authored many research reports and guided that agencys diverse research agenda including work on pretrial risk assessment court-case processing and evaluating alternative-to-incarceration programs. She also worked for the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General with a special focus on statistical evaluation of vehicle stops to assist the New Jersey State Police in reducing the potential for racial profiling. Her work has been recognized by the New York Association of Pretrial Service Agencies and the State of New Jersey. She has been an adjunct professor at New York University Montclair State University and Texas State University.