Rational Choice and Criminal Behavior: Recent Research and Future Challenges
by Piquero,Alex R.Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-11-30
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary
Rational Choice and Criminal Behavioris 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.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| Individual Propensities and Rational Decision-Making: Recent Findings and Promising Approaches | p. 3 |
| Rationality and Corporate Offending Decisions | p. 25 |
| Analyzing Organized Crimes | p. 41 |
| Understanding Intoxicated Violence from a Rational Choice Perspective | p. 65 |
| The Rational Choice Implications of Control Balance Theory | p. 85 |
| Sex Differences and Rational Choice: Traditional Tests and New Directions | p. 109 |
| Premature Affluence, Rational Choice, and Delinquency: Examining the Darker Side of Affluence | p. 137 |
| Decision Making in Violent Events among Adolescent Males: An Examination of Sparks and Other Motivational Factors | p. 163 |
| "I'm Down for My Organization": The Rationality of Responses to Delinquency, Youth Crime, and Gangs | p. 197 |
| Reconciling Feminism and Rational Choice Theory: Women's Agency in Street Crime | p. 219 |
| Assessing the Rationality of Criminal and Delinquent Behavior: A Focus on Actual Utility | p. 241 |
| The Impulsiveness and Routinization of Decision-Making | p. 265 |
| Dangerous Liaison? Rational Choice Theory as the Basis for Correctional Intervention | p. 279 |
| The Impact of Lambda Skewness on Criminology: A Contingent Analysis | p. 297 |
| Deterrence, Rational Choice, and Criminal Offending: A Consideration of Legal Subjectivity | p. 323 |
| Contributors | p. 341 |
| Index | p. 343 |
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