The Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making

The Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making provides high-quality reviews of the main paradigms in offender decision-making, such as rational choice theory and dual-process theory. It contains up-to-date reviews of empirical research on decision-making in a wide range of decision types including not only criminal initiation and desistance, but also choice of locations, times, targets, victims, methods as well as a large variety of crimes. The Handbook also provides comprehensive in-depth treatments of the major methods that can be used to study offender decision-making.

Informationen zum Autor Wim Bernasco is Senior Researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.Henk Elffers is Professor in the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at VU University Amsterdam and a Senior Researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement.Jean Louis van Gelder is Researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement. Klappentext The Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making provides high-quality reviews of the main paradigms in offender decision-making, such as rational choice theory and dual-process theory. It contains up-to-date reviews of empirical research on decision-making in a wide range of decision types including not only criminal initiation and desistance, but also choice of locations, times, targets, victims, methods as well as a large variety of crimes. The Handbookalso provides comprehensive in-depth treatments of the major methods that can be used to study offender decision-making. Zusammenfassung Although the issue of offender decision-making pervades almost every discussion of crime and law enforcement, only a few comprehensive texts cover and integrate information about the role of decision-making in crime. The Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making provide high-quality reviews of the main paradigms in offender decision-making, such as rational choice theory and dual-process theory. It contains up-to-date reviews of empirical research on decision-making in a wide range of decision types including not only criminal initiation and desistance, but also choice of locations, times, targets, victims, methods as well as large variety crimes including homicide, robbery, domestic violence, burglary, street crime, sexual crimes, and cybercrime. Lastly, it provides in-depth treatments of the major methods used to study offender decision-making, including experiments, observation studies, surveys, offender interviews, and simulations. Comprehensive and authoritative, the Handbook will quickly become the primary source of theoretical, methodological, and empirical knowledge about decision-making as it relates to criminal behavior. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Contributors Preface 1. Editors' Introduction Wim Bernasco, Henk Elffers, and Jean-Louis van Gelder 2. Rational Choice Theory, Heuristics and Biases Megan E. Collins and Thomas A. Loughran 3. Evolutionary Approaches to Rational Choice Paul Ekblom 4. Multiple Interpretations of Rationality in Offender Decision Making Henk Elffers 5. Situational Crime Prevention and Offender Decision Making Aiden Sidebottom and Nick Tilley 6. Biosocial Criminology and Models of Criminal Decision Making Kyle Treiber 7. Perceptual Deterrence Robert Apel and Daniel S. Nagin 8. Game Theory Heiko Rauhut 9. Dual-Process Models of Criminal Decision Making Jean-Louis van Gelder 10. Personality and Offender Decision-Making: The Theoretical, Empirical, and Practical Implications for Criminology Shayne Jones 11. Temporal Discounting, Present Orientation, and Criminal Deterrence Chae Mamayek, Ray Paternoster, and Thomas A. Loughran 12. The Role of Moral Beliefs, Shame, and Guilt in Criminal Decision-Making: An Overview of Theoretical Trameworks and Empirical Results Robert Svensson, Lieven J.R. Pauwels, and Frank M. Weerman 13. Neural Mechanisms of Criminal Decision Making in Adolescence: The Roles of Executive Functioning and Empathy Eduard T. Klapwijk, Wouter van den Bos, and Berna Güroglu 14. Social Learner Decision-Making: Matching Theory as a Unifying Framework for Recasting a General Theory Carter Rees and L. Thomas Winfree 15. Victim Selection Margit Averdijk 16. Co-offending and Co-offender Selection Sarah B. van Mastrigt 17. Informal Guardians and Offen...

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Wim Bernasco is Senior Researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Henk Elffers is Professor in the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at VU University Amsterdam and a Senior Researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement. Jean Louis van Gelder is Researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement.

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The Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making provides high-quality reviews of the main paradigms in offender decision-making, such as rational choice theory and dual-process theory. It contains up-to-date reviews of empirical research on decision-making in a wide range of decision types including not only criminal initiation and desistance, but also choice of locations, times, targets, victims, methods as well as a large variety of crimes. The Handbookalso provides comprehensive in-depth treatments of the major methods that can be used to study offender decision-making.

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Although the issue of offender decision-making pervades almost every discussion of crime and law enforcement, only a few comprehensive texts cover and integrate information about the role of decision-making in crime. The Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making provide high-quality reviews of the main paradigms in offender decision-making, such as rational choice theory and dual-process theory. It contains up-to-date reviews of empirical research on decision-making in a wide range of decision types including not only criminal initiation and desistance, but also choice of locations, times, targets, victims, methods as well as large variety crimes including homicide, robbery, domestic violence, burglary, street crime, sexual crimes, and cybercrime. Lastly, it provides in-depth treatments of the major methods used to study offender decision-making, including experiments, observation studies, surveys, offender interviews, and simulations. Comprehensive and authoritative, the Handbook will quickly become the primary source of theoretical, methodological, and empirical knowledge about decision-making as it relates to criminal behavior.

Contenu

• List of Contributors

• Preface

• 1. Editors' Introduction

• Wim Bernasco, Henk Elffers, and Jean-Louis van Gelder

• 2. Rational Choice Theory, Heuristics and Biases

• Megan E. Collins and Thomas A. Loughran

• 3. Evolutionary Approaches to Rational Choice

• Paul Ekblom

• 4. Multiple Interpretations of Rationality in Offender Decision Making

• Henk Elffers

• 5. Situational Crime Prevention and Offender Decision Making

• Aiden Sidebottom and Nick Tilley

• 6. Biosocial Criminology and Models of Criminal Decision Making

• Kyle Treiber

• 7. Perceptual Deterrence

• Robert Apel and Daniel S. Nagin

• 8. Game Theory

• Heiko Rauhut

• 9. Dual-Process Models of Criminal Decision Making

• Jean-Louis van Gelder

• 10. Personality and Offender Decision-Making: The Theoretical, Empirical, and Practical Implications for Criminology

• Shayne Jones

• 11. Temporal Discounting, Present Orientation, and Criminal Deterrence

• Chae Mamayek, Ray Paternoster, and Thomas A. Loughran

• 12. The Role of Moral Beliefs, Shame, and Guilt in Criminal Decision-Making: An Overview of Theoretical Trameworks and Empirical Results

• Robert Svensson, Lieven J.R. …