Felson’s Fallacies

• Age Fallacy

  Felson argued the 'age fallacy'. The media portray criminals and victims as older and more middle-class than those typically found in the criminal justice system.
• Dramatic fallacy

  The media overplay extraordinary crimes and underplay ordinary crimes - Felson calls this the 'dramatic fallacy'.
• Ingenuity Fallacy

  Media images lead us to believe that to commit crime (and to solve it) one needs to be daring and clever - the 'ingenuity fallacy'.