Cognition and crime : offender decision making and script analyses / edited by Benoit LeClerc and Richard Wortley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

LeClerc, Benoit, editor.

Wortley, Richard (Richard K.), editor.

Series:

Crime science series (Routledge (Firm))

Crime Science Series ; 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 261 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<P>The rational choice perspective developed by Cornish and Clarke in 1986 provides criminologists with a valuable and practical framework for purposes of crime control and prevention. More than twenty-five years later, <I>Cognition and Crime</I> pushes the boundaries of this field of research by bringing together international leading (or emerging) researchers in this area of script analysis into a single volume for the first time. It also presents a series of original contributions on offender decision-making during crime and crime script analysis as well as offering a critical perspective o

Contents:

Cover ; Cognition and Crime; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents ; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 1 The Reasoning Criminal: twenty-five years on; 2 What are violent offenders thinking?; 3 How house burglars decide on targets: a computer-based scenario approach; 4 The risks and rewards of motor vehicle theft: implications for criminal persistence; 5 The rational choice perspective and the phenomenon of stalking: an examination of sex differences in behaviours, rationales, situational precipitators and feelings

6 Interpersonal scripts and victim reaction in child sexual abuse: a quantitative analysis of the offender-victim interchange7 Drug dealing: Amsterdam's Red Light District; 8 Human trafficking for sexual exploitation in Italy; 9 Script analysis of corruption in public procurement; 10 Cigarette smuggling and terrorism financing: a script approach; 11 Script analysis of the transnational illegal market in endangered species: dream and reality; 12 New developments in script analysis for situational crime prevention: moving beyond offender scripts

13 Rational choice and offender decision making: lessons from the cognitive sciencesIndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed September 2, 2013).

ISBN:

9781138922358

1138922358

9781136185342

1136185348

9780203083482

0203083482

9781136185359

1136185356

OCLC:

858126051