1st Edition
The Reasoning Criminal Rational Choice Perspectives on Offending
By Ronald V. Clarke
Copyright 2014
270 Pages
by
Routledge
270 Pages
by
Routledge
268 Pages
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Routledge
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The assumption that rewards and punishments influence our choices between different courses of action underlies economic, sociological, psychological, and legal thinking about human action. Hence, the notion of a reasoning criminal—one who employs the same sorts of cognitive strategies when contemplating offending as they and the rest of us use when making other decisions—might seem a small... Read more
1: Introduction; 17: Part One Empirical Studies of Criminal Decision Making; 2: Shoplifters' Perceptions of Crime Opportunities: A Process-Tracing Study; 3: Victim Selection Procedures Among Economic Criminals: The Rational Choice Perspective; 4: Robbers as Decision-Makers; 5: The Decision to Give Up Crime 1; 6: A Decision-Making Approach to Opioid Addiction; Two: Theoretical Issues; 7: On the Compatibility of Rational Choice and Social Control Theories of Crime; 8: Linking Criminal Choices, Routine Activities, Informal Control, and Criminal Outcomes; 9: Models of Decision Making Under Uncertainty: The Criminal Choice; 10: The Theory of Reasoned Action: A Decision Theory of Crime; 11: The Decision to Commit a Crime: An Information-Processing Analysis; 12: Offense Specialization: Does It Exist?; 13: Criminal Incapacitation Effects Considered in an Adaptive Choice Framework; 14: Practical Reasoning and Criminal Responsibility: A Jurisprudential Approach
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