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973-353-5237
felson@andromeda.rutgers.edu
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Professor Marcus Felson’s research focuses on the everyday, not the exotic: How do the day-to-day realities of life produce opportunities for crime?
And equally as important, how do you work within these realities to develop measures to reduce crime opportunities, and thus lower the crime rate?
Felson’s extensive research in these areas has resulted in practical approaches to reducing crime, with a special focus on preventing business crime. He has taught classes to police officers, and created Crime Prevention Service, a web-site to educate business-owners in anti-crime strategies, located at crimeprevention.rutgers.edu. Felson’s findings and recommendations have been widely published in books and journals.
In 1997, Rutgers graduate students, under Felson’s direction, conducted a well-publicized study and determined that strategic changes in building design and policies had significantly reduced crime in New York’s Port Authority Bus Terminal.
Felson’s expertise extends to urban crime and crime rate trends, as well as business crime and crime prevention.
Felson taught at the University of Southern California and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before coming to Rutgers in 1995. He received his undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago, and his master’s and doctorate in sociology from the University of Michigan. Time magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, NPR and CBS Radio frequently call upon Felson for expert commentary on crime issues.
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