The Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making 1st Edition

Description

• Author(s)
  Wim Bernasco; ‎Henk Elffers; ‎JeanLouis van Gelder
• Publisher
  Oxford University Press
• Format
  PDF
• Print ISBN
  9780199338801, 0199338809
• eText ISBN
  9780199338801, 0199338809
• Edition
  1st
• Copyright
• Details
  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.