SOC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Cherry Pie, Glasser'S Choice Theory, Bounded Rationality
6 Apr 2016
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Return to classical school: raional humans, deterrence, punishment. Raional choice theory, rouine aciviies theory, lifestyle theory, situaional choice theory. Individuals make a conscious, raional, and at least parially informed choice to commit a crime. Involvement decisions: choice of whether or not to get involved, coninue or withdraw from ofence o. Event decisions: made during process of undertaking crime. Raional choices are event speciic (type of event: burglary vs. murder; speciic event: rob person or let them pass); quick decisions. Crime will decrease when opportuniies are limited, beneits reduced and costs increased. First: omar and night crew prepping (raional/involvement decisions) o. Individuals are generally raional, potenial criminals if they think they can get away with it. Bounded raionality: judgement/decisions clouded by percepion, prior knowledge, lack of knowledge o o. Peach pie or cherry pie, make decision based on knowledge presented to you (don"t know if one has nuts in the crust, etc. )
