Rational Choice and Criminal Behavior
Subtitle: Recent Research and Future Challenges (Current Issues in Criminal Justice (Routledge (Firm)).)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 30, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9780815336785
Subjects: Crime & criminology; Sociology; Decision making; Social Science; Sociology - General; Research; Social Science / Research; Criminology; Choice (Psychology); Criminal psychology
First sentence: A significant portion of the studies on rational choice theory in the late 1980s and early 1990s dealt with integrating perspectives that emphasize persistent individual differences with traditional decision making models that focus on hedonistic or "expected utility" factors (i.e., perceived cost and benefits).