Rational Choice and Criminal Behavior (eBook, ePUB)

Recent Research and Future Challenges
Redaktion: Piquero, Alex R.; Tibbets, Stephen G.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136764264
• Artikelnr.: 38269086

Autorenporträt

Alex R. Piquero, Stephen G. Tibbets

Inhaltsangabe

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