CRIM 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi, Rationality
18 Jan 2018
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We still choose to act on those desires. A study of the childhoods of 700 famous men and women some infamous. People like einstein, churchill, freud, martin luther king, jr. , ghandi, and mother theresa. These people succeed in spite of their childhood sociologists ca(cid:374)"t e(cid:454)plai(cid:374) e(cid:448)er(cid:455)thi(cid:374)g. Ecological fallacy: what is about individuals can be inferred through the behavior of the group. 1: b/p if denominator goes up then can buy less things, shifts your budget constraints in. *will not be asked to explain the chart. Really began with situational crime prevention: uncomfortable committing crime outside familiar area. Not so much: cognitive maps, awareness space, and so on. Criminals will adapt: drop in auto theft because of non-key start. Other fields that consider rational choice and crime. Many offenders are law-abiding most of the time. So we need to understand choices in order to change them (just like the graphs earlier) Alter the nature of the choice set prevent crime.
