Introduction to the Transaction Edition
Preface
Contributors
Chapter 1 Introduction
Derek Cornish and Ronald Clarke
Rational Choice Approaches to Crime
Empirical Studies of Criminal Decision Making
Theoretical Issues
Conclusions
Part One Empirical Studies of Criminal Decision Making
Chapter 2 Shoplifters' Perceptions of Crime Opportunities:
A Process-Tracing Study
John Carroll and Frances Weaver
Editors' Note
Criminal Rationality
Appropriate Methods
A Study of Shoplifters' Thoughts
Generalizations
Chapter 3 Victim Selection Procedures Among Economic
Criminals: The Rational Choice Perspective
Dermot Walsh
Editors' Note
Introduction: Contrasting Attitudes to Rationality
Differing Conceptions of Rationality
Rationality and Risk
Present Research: Aims and Methods
Results
Conclusions
Chapter 4 Robbers as Decision-Makers
Floyd Feeney
Editors' Note
The Decision to Rob
Planning
Decisions Concerning Means
Decisions Concerning Weapons and Force
Learning and Decisions to Continue
Rationality
Implications for Research
Implications for Policy
Chapter 5 The Decision to Give Up Crime
Maurice Cusson and Pierre Pinsonneault
Editor's Note
Shock
Delayed Deterrence
Assessment
A Reevaluation of Goals
The Decision
Aging
Backsliding
Women and Jobs
Conclusion
Chapter 6 A Decision-Making Approach to Opioid
Addiction
Trevor Bennett
Editors' Note
Searching for Causes: A Look Backward
Understanding Drug-Taking Careers: A Look
Forward
The Cambridge Study of Opioid Users
Summary and Discussion
A Final Comment
Part Two Theoretical Issues
Chapter 7 On the Compatibility of Rational Choice and
Social Control Theories of Crime
Travis Hirschi
Editors' Note
Social Disorganization
Social Control Theory
Integrated Theory in Sociology
Causation and Determinism
Crime and Criminality
Mindlessness and Intellectualism
Correlates of Crime
Conclusion
Chapter 8 Linking Criminal Choices, Routine Activities,
Informal Control, and Criminal Outcomes
Marcus Felson
Editors' Note
Chapter 9 Models of Decision Making Under Uncertainty:
The Criminal Choice
Pamela Lattimore and Ann Witte
Editors' Note
The Expected Utility Model
Criticisms of the Expected Utility Model
The Prospect Theory Model
Expected Utility and Prospect Theory Models of
Criminal Choice
Summary
Appendix I
Appendix II
Chapter 10 The Theory of Reasoned Action: A Decision
Theory of Crime
Mary Tuck and David Riley
Editors' Note
Deterrence Research
Wider Criminological Theories
A Theory Expounded
TORA and Situational Theory
The Normative Measure
The Moral Commitment Variable
Crime and Secrecy
TORA and Judgmental Heuristics
Levels of Specificity
Conclusion: The Need for Empirical Work
Chapter 11 The Decision to Commit a Crime: An Information-
Processing Analysis
Eric Johnson and John Payne
Editors' Note
Decision Making and Criminality
Constructing Representations
Evaluating Alternatives
Conclusion
Chapter 12 Offense Specialization: Does It Exist?
Kimberly Kempf
Editors' Note
Previous Research
Data
Variables
Methods
Results
Summary of Results
Conclusion
Appendix
Chapter 13 Criminal Incapacitation Effects Considered in