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Rational Choice and Criminal Behavior Alex R. Piquero

Rational Choice and Criminal Behavior By Alex R. Piquero

Rational Choice and Criminal Behavior by Alex R. Piquero


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This work analyses the degree to which criminal behaviour represents a rational choice, answering how the criminal framework was developed, and how to apply this framework to the study of criminal behaviour.

Rational Choice and Criminal Behavior Summary

Rational Choice and Criminal Behavior: Recent Research and Future Challenges by Alex R. Piquero

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.

About Alex R. Piquero

Alex R. Piquero, Stephen G. Tibbets

Table 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

Additional information

NPB9780815336785
9780815336785
0815336780
Rational Choice and Criminal Behavior: Recent Research and Future Challenges by Alex R. Piquero
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Inc
2001-11-30
366
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