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Crime Opportunity Theories: Routine Activity, Rational Choice and their Variants
Opportunity theories of crime seek to explain the occurrence of crime rather than simply the existence of criminal dispositions. This title features articles on: opportunity theories of crime; routine activity theory; and, the bounded rational choice perspective.
Author(s) | Edited by Mangai Natarajan. |
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Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Format | Hardback |
Pages | 616 |
Published in | United Kingdom |
Published | 23 Nov 2011 |
Availability | Available |
Opportunity theories of crime seek to explain the occurrence of crime rather than simply the existence of criminal dispositions. This title features articles on: opportunity theories of crime; routine activity theory; and, the bounded rational choice perspective.
Acknowledgements, Series Preface, Introduction, PART I. THEORIZING SITUATIONAL DETERMINANTS OF CRIME, 1. 'Delinquency, Environment and Intervention', Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 26, pp. 505-23, 2. 'The Situational Analysis of Crime and Dev
Mangai Natarajan is Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York, USA