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Rational Choice and Criminal Behavior" is a collection of essays by experts in the field of criminal justice examines various aspects of the rational choice framework, which deals with the degree to which criminal behavior represents a rational choice. The editors also include essays that cover specific policy approaches that stem from this framework, an argument that is crucial in the debate over punishment as a deterrent and the role of society in fostering criminal behavior.
List of contents
1.Individual Propensities and Rational Decision-Making: Recent Findings and Promising Approaches -Stephen G. Tibbetts and Chris L. Gibson 2.Rationality and Corporate Offending Decisions -Sally S. Simpson, Nicole Leeper Piquero, and Raymond Paternoster 3.Analyzing Organized Crimes -Derek B. Cornish and Ronald V. Clarke 4.Understanding Intoxicated Violence from a Rational Choice Perspective -Jean-Marc Assad and M. Lyn Exum 5.The Rational Choice Implications of Control Balance Theory -Alex R. Piquero and Matthew Hickman 6.Sex Differences and Rational Choice: Traditional Tests and New Directions -Brenda Sims Blackwell and Sarah Eschholz 7.Premature Affluence, Rational Choice and Delinquency: Examining the Darker Side of Affluence -John Paul Wright 8.Decision making in Violent Events Among Adolescent Males: An Examination of Sparks and Other Motivational Factors -Deanna L. Wilkinson 9.I'm Down for My Organization: The Rationality of Responses to Delinquency, Youth Crime, and Gangs -Scott H. Decker and G. David Curry 10.Reconciling Feminism and Rational Choice Theory: Women's Agency in Street Crime-Jody Miller 11.Assessing the Rationality of Criminal and Delinquent Behavior: A Focus on Actual Utility -Timothy Brezina 12.The Impulsiveness and Routinization of Decision-Making -Kenneth D. Tunnell 13.Dangerous Liaison? Rational Choice Theory as the Basis for Correctional Intervention -Francis T. Cullen, Travis C. Pratt, Sharon Levrant Miceli, and Melissa M. Moon 14.The Impact of Lambda Skewness on Criminology: A Contingent Analysis -Thomas B. Marvell 15.Deterrence, Rational Choice, and Criminal Offending: A Consideration of Legal Subjectivity -Michael Massoglia and Ross Macmillan Contributors Index
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Alex R. Piquero, Stephen G. Tibbets
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Rational Choice and Criminal Behavior is a collection of essays by experts in the field of criminal justice examines various aspects of the rational choice framework, which deals with the degree to which criminal behavior represents a rational choice.
