In Marcus Felson's book Crime and Everyday Life, Felson discusses
             temptations without controls, the chemistry for crime, delivering crime to your
             doorstep, and out-of-sync youth in chapters 2-5. In this paper I am going to
             summarize and critique each chapter.
             Felson titled chapter 2 Temptations Without Controls. Throughout the
             chapter Felson shows how crime thrives on temptations without controls. He
             shows how these words refer to the immediate environment as it provides the
             roots for crime. He goes on to say that even crime's deeper roots from the past
             must accomplish the physical delivery of temptations without controls. In order
             to find out which of these two forces has the upper hand in any given setting or
             in society as a whole, Felson says that we need to study particular crime types
             and the settings that generate them, including workplaces, schools, recreation
             areas, residential streets, and transport systems.
             There were some things that stuck out of chapter 2. Travis Hirschi's
             presentation of crime as not asking, "Why did such a terrible person do that
             awful thing?', but instead, "Why doesn't everybody engage in crime?". Hirschi
             argues that crime needs no special motivation, that it results from an absence of
             controls to prevent it. Another answer was also given to the question, it states
             that everyday life delivers temptations unevenly, and that crime is committed
             mainly by people who are tempted more and controlled less. Hirschi's
             comments interest me very much. If I were studying crime, the first question that
             I would want answered would be how can someone do such an awful thing and
             why would they want to do it. However, looking at crime under Hirschi's
             perspective makes sense and is a very interesting concept, but to me his
             question is a little different from my perspective.
             Felson looks at some different pres...