Providing students with a system for thinking about crime, this book shows how crime draws from the larger ecosystem, how offenders forage for targets and how they depend on one another. It considers how crime feeds off legal activities and shows how crime ecology can help shut off crime opportunities and reduce crime in local areas.

Crime and Nature, written by the always innovative and original Marcus Felson, is the first text to provide students with a unique, new perspective for thinking about crime and how modern society can reduce crime's ecosystem and limit its diversity.