Rational Choice Theory
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- Rational Choice Theory
- Clarke and Cornish
- Not a simple choice but a sequence of choices made which are influenced by a number of social and psychological factors.
- Criminal motivations - incline or dispose individuals toward cirminality
- Six basic propositions
- Offenders want to make the best decisions given the risks and uncertainty involved
- Offender decision making varies between crimes
- Involvement and event decisions are very different
- Involvement decisions comprise three stages - initiation, habituation and desistance.
- Whether a person is ready to begin committing crime in order to obtain what they want
- Whether, having started offending, they should continue to do so
- Whether, at some stage, they ought to stop
- Event decisions involve a sequence of choices made at eatch stage of the criminal act - preparation, target selection, commission, escape and aftermath
- Purposeful acts to benefit the offender
- Not a simple choice but a sequence of choices made which are influenced by a number of social and psychological factors.
- Calculation for benefit and cost
- Pleasure pain principle
- Series of decisions leading to commit crime - rationality
- Takes into account personality = positivist
- Make decisions on the facts they have - bounded rationality Clarke and Cornish
- Offenders are rarely in possession of all the necessary facts about the risks, efforts and rewards of crime
- Criminal choices usually have to be made quickly
- No planning down to the last detail, criminals rely on a general approach that has worked before improvising on unforeseen circumstances
- Once embarked on a crime, crimnals focus on the rewards rather than risks, when considering the risks they focus on immediate idea of being caught - not future punishments
- Contemporary classiscism
- Clarke and Cornish
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