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Chapter Four Choice Theory: Because They Want To

Chapter Four Choice Theory: Because They Want To. Choice Theory: Because They Want To. Development of Rational Choice Theory Classical Criminology Thinking About Crime James Q. Wilson. Choice Theory: Because They Want To. Concepts of Rational Choice Evaluating the Risks of Crime

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Chapter Four Choice Theory: Because They Want To

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  1. Chapter FourChoice Theory:Because They Want To

  2. Choice Theory: Because They Want To • Development of Rational Choice Theory • Classical Criminology • Thinking About Crime • James Q. Wilson

  3. Choice Theory: Because They Want To • Concepts of Rational Choice • Evaluating the Risks of Crime • Offense-Specific Crime • Offender-Specific Crime

  4. Choice Theory: Because They Want To • Concepts of Rational Choice • Structuring Criminality • Economic need/opportunity • Evaluating personal traits and experience • Criminal expertise

  5. Choice Theory: Because They Want To • Concepts of Rational Choice • Structuring Crime • Choosing the place of crime • Choosing targets

  6. Choice Theory: Because They Want To • Is Crime Rational? • Is theft rational? • Is drug use rational? • Can violence be rational?

  7. Choice Theory: Because They Want To • Why Do People Commit Crime? • Edgework • Seductions of crime

  8. Choice Theory: Because They Want To • Controlling Crime • Situational Crime Prevention • Criminal acts will be avoided if: • potential targets are carefully guarded • the means to commit crime are controlled • potential offenders are carefully monitored

  9. Choice Theory: Because They Want To • Controlling Crime • Crime Prevention Strategies • Increase the effort needed to commit crime • Increase the risk of committing crime • Reduce rewards of crime • Induce guilt: increase crime • Reduce provocation • Remove excuses

  10. Choice Theory: Because They Want To • Controlling Crime • The Costs and Benefits of Situational Crime Prevention • Hidden benefits • Hidden costs

  11. Choice Theory: Because They Want To • General Deterrence • Perception and Deterrence • Certainty of Punishment • Police and Certainty of Punishment • Severity of Punishment • Swiftness of Punishment • Interrelationship of factors

  12. Choice Theory: Because They Want To • General Deterrence • Critique of General Deterrence • Rationality • System effectiveness • Some offenders – and some crimes – are more “deterrable” than others

  13. Choice Theory: Because They Want To • Specific Deterrence • The view that criminal sanctions should be so powerful that offenders will never repeat their criminal acts.

  14. Choice Theory: Because They Want To • Incapacitation • Incapacitation Effect • Incarceration • Recidivism • Can Incapacitation Reduce Crime?

  15. Choice Theory: Because They Want To • Can Incapacitation Reduce Crime? • Incapacitation Effect • Incarceration • Recidivism

  16. Choice Theory: Because They Want To • Policy Implications of Choice Theory • Highly Visible Police Patrols • “Three Strikes and You’re Out” • Death Penalty

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