Research Catalog

Title

Rational choice and criminal behavior : recent research and future challenges / edited by Alex R. Piquero and Stephen G. Tibbetts.

Publication

New York : Routledge, 2002.

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Additional Authors

• Piquero, Alexis Russell
• Tibbetts, Stephen G.

Description

xi, 353 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

This text deals with the degree to which criminal behaviour represents a rational choice. This collection of essays by experts in the field of criminal justice examines various aspects of the rational choice framework.

Series Statement

Current issues in criminal justice

Uniform Title

Current issues in criminal justice (Routledge (Firm))

Subject

• Choice (Psychology)
• Choice Behavior
• Criminal Psychology
• Criminal psychology
• Criminology
• Decision Making
• Decision making

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Individual propensities and rational decision-making : recent findings and promising approaches / Stephen G. Tibbetts and Chris L. Gibson -- Rationality and corporate offending decisions / Sally S. Simpson, Nicole Leeper Piquero, and Raymond Paternoster -- Analyzing organized crimes / Derek B. Cornish and Ronald V. Clarke -- Understanding intoxicated violence from a rational choice perspective / Jean-Marc Assaad and M. Lyn Exum -- The rational choice implications of control balance theory / Alex R. Piquero and Matthew Hickman -- Sex differences and rational choice : traditional tests and new directions / Brenda Sims Blackwell and Sarah Eschholz -- Premature affluence, rational choice, and delinquency : examining the darker side of affluence / John Paul Wright -- Decision making in violent events among adolescent males : an examination of sparks and other motivational factors / Deanna L. Wilinson -- "I'm down for my organization" : the rationality of responses to delinquency, youth crime, and gangs / Scott H. Decker and G. David Curry -- Reconciling feminism and rational choice theory : women's agency in street crime / Jody Miller -- Assessing the rationality of criminal and delinquent behavior : a focus on actual utility / Timothy Brezina -- The impulsiveness and routinization of decision-making / Kenneth D. Tunnell -- Dangerous liaison? Rational choice theory as the basis for correctional intervention / Francis T. Cullen [and others] -- The impact of lambda skewness on criminology : a contingent analysis / Thomas B. Marvell -- Deterrence, rational choice, and criminal offending : a consideration of legal subjectivity / Michael Massoglia and Ross Macmillan.

ISBN

0815336780

LCCN

^^^00069039^

OCLC

45804558

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library