Piquero / Tibbets Rational Choice and Criminal Behavior

Recent Research and Future Challenges
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-136-76426-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

"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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Piquero, Alex R.

Tibbets, Stephen G.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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
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