The Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199338801.001.0001

The Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making

Edited by Wim Bernasco, Jean-Louis van Gelder, and Henk Elffers

Abstract

How offenders make decisions that lead to criminal conduct is a core element of virtually every discussion about crime and law enforcement. What type of information can deter a potential offender? For whom is the prospect of a sanction effective? How can emotions facilitate or impede crime? How does the availability of guns affect behavior in violent conflicts? Do offenders learn to commit crime from the experiences of others? Is crime perpetrated by juveniles always the result of impulsive decisions? How do offenders choose crime targets and locations? The Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making covers and integrates contemporary theoretical, methodological, and empirical knowledge about the role of human decision making as it relates to criminal behavior. It provides state-of-the art reviews of the main paradigms in offender decision making, such as rational choice theory and deterrence, but also includes recent approaches such as dual-process models of decision making. It contains up-to-date reviews of empirical research on a wide range of decision types, from criminal initiation and desistance to choice of location, time, target, victim, and modus operandi. It also contains reviews of decision making regarding specific types of crime, including homicide, sexual crime, burglary, and white-collar and organized crime. In addition, it includes comprehensive in-depth treatments of the principal research methods used to study offender decision making, such as experimental designs, observation studies, surveys, offender interviews, and simulations.

Keywords: crime, offenders, decision making, rational choice, impulsivity, emotion, cognition, morality

Bibliographic Information

Publisher:: Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:: Jul 2017

ISBN:: 9780199338801

Published online:: Jun 2017

DOI:: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199338801.001.0001

Editors

Wim Bernasco, editor
Wim Bernasco is a senior researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR) and Professor of “spatial analysis of crime” in the Department of Spatial Economics of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He studies spatial aspects of crime, including offenders’ travel behavior and target selection. His work also comprises research on situational causes of crime, including the analysis of crime captured on camera.

Jean-Louis van Gelder, editor
Jean-Louis van Gelder is a senior researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR). His research interests include the interplay of affect and cognition in criminal decision making, multiple self models, the application of novel methods and technologies in criminological research, and informality.

Henk Elffers, editor
Henk Elffers is a senior researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR); Emeritus Professor in the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; and Adjoint-Lecturer at Griffith University, Mount Gravatt. He works on rational choice, guardianship, spatial criminology, and the interaction between judges and the general public.

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Front Matter
- The Oxford Handbooks in Criminology and Criminal Justice
- The Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making
- Preface
- Contributors
Editors’ IntroductionWim Bernasco, Jean-Louis van Gelder, and Henk Elffers
Rational Choice Theory, Heuristics, and BiasesMegan Eileen Collins and Thomas A. Loughran
Evolutionary Approaches to Rational ChoicePaul Ekblom
Multiple Interpretations of Rationality in Offender Decision MakingHenk Elffers
Situational Crime Prevention and Offender Decision MakingAiden Sidebottom and Nick Tilley
Biosocial Criminology and Models of Criminal Decision MakingKyle Treiber
Perceptual DeterrenceRobert Apel and Daniel S. Nagin
Game TheoryHeiko Rauhut
Dual-Process Models of Criminal Decision MakingJean-Louis van Gelder
Personality and Offender Decision Making: The Theoretical, Empirical, and Practical Implications for CriminologyShayne Jones
Temporal Discounting, Present Orientation, and Criminal DeterrenceChae Mamayek, Ray Paternoster, and Thomas A. Loughran
The Role of Moral Beliefs, Shame, and Guilt in Criminal Decision Making: An Overview of Theoretical Frameworks and Empirical ResultsRobert Svensson, Lieven J. R. Pauwels, and Frank M. Weerman
Neural Mechanisms of Criminal Decision Making in Adolescence: The Roles of Executive Functioning and EmpathyEduard T. Klapwijk, Wouter van den Bos, and Berna Güroğlu
Social Learner Decision Making: Matching Theory as a Unifying Framework for Recasting a General TheoryCarter Rees and L. Thomas Winfree Jr.
Victim SelectionMargit Averdijk
Co-offending and Co-offender SelectionSarah B. van Mastrigt
Informal Guardians and Offender Decision MakingDanielle M. Reynald
Police and Offender Choices: A FrameworkJohn E. Eck and Tamara D. Madensen
Crime Location Choice: State of the Art and Avenues for Future ResearchStijn Ruiter
High Stakes: The Role of Weapons in Offender Decision MakingIain R. Brennan
The Effect of Alcohol and Arousal on Criminal Decision MakingM. Lyn Exum, Lauren A. Austin, and Justin D. Franklin
Emotions in Offender Decision MakingJean-Louis van Gelder
Experimental Designs in the Study of Offender Decision MakingJeffrey A. Bouffard and Nicole Niebuhr
Observational Methods of Offender Decision MakingMarie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard and Heith Copes
Understanding Offender Decision Making Using Surveys, Interviews, and Life Event CalendarsRonet Bachman and Ray Paternoster
Simulating Crime Event Decision Making: Agent-Based Social Simulations in CriminologyDaniel Birks
Modeling Offender Decision Making with Secondary DataWim Bernasco
“Deciding” to Kill: Understanding Homicide Offenders’ Decision MakingFiona Brookman and Michelle Wright
Cold-Blooded and Badass: A “Hot/Cool” Approach to Understanding Carjackers’ DecisionsGabriel T Cesar and Scott H. Decker
The Reasoning Sex OffenderEric Beauregard
Burglary DecisionsTimothy Coupe
Offender Decision Making in Corporate and White-Collar CrimeWim Huisman
Organized Crime and Protection RacketsPaolo Campana
End Matter
- Index

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The Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making

Edited by Wim Bernasco, Jean-Louis van Gelder, and Henk Elffers

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