1st Edition
Routine Activity and Rational Choice Volume 5
432 Pages
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Routledge
428 Pages
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Routledge
428 Pages
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Routledge
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Two new criminological approaches are defined and applied to categories of crime in Routine Activity and Rational Choice, now available in paperback. Routine activity analyzes the criminal event, and avoids motivations and psychology as topics for discussion, whereas rational choice approaches crime as purposive behavior designed to meet the offender's commonplace needs, such as money, status,... Read more
Introduction: Criminology, Routine Activity, and Rational Choice; One: Extending the Reach; 1: Searching for Suitable Co-offenders; 2: A Rational Choice Theory of Corporate Crime; 3: Drivers Who Drink and Rational Choice: Random Breath Testing and the Process of Deterrence; 4: Gun Use in Crime, Rational Choice, and Social Learning Theory; 5: Predatory and Dispute-related Violence: A Social Interactionist Approach; 6: Tinderbox Criminal Violence: Neurogenic Impulsivity, Risk-taking, and the Phenomenology of Rational Choice; 7: Rational Choice, Behavior Analysis, and Political Violence; 8: Ransom Kidnapping in Sardinia, Subcultural Theory and Rational Choice; 9: Successful Criminal Careers: Toward an Ethnography within the Rational Choice Perspective; Two: Bridging the Gaps; 10: The Rational Choice/Opportunity Perspectives as a Vehicle for Integrating Criminological and Victimological Theories; 11: Environment, Routine, and Situation: Toward a Pattern Theory of Crime; 12: A Strategic Analysis of Crime: Criminal Tactics as Responses to Precriminal Situations; 13: Conscience, Opportunity, Rational Choice, and Crime; 14: Crime Prevention through Environmental Design, Opportunity Theory, and Rational Choice Models; 15: Theories of Action in Criminology: Learning Theory and Rational Choice Approaches
Biography
Nicolai Hartmann
