CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Scared Straight!, Deterrence Theory, Absolute Monarchy

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Rational choice theories free will and free choice. Baccarea wrote a pamphlet (1754) that really came to shape the views of punishment that we still have today. The principle of being innocent until proven guilty emerged fr. these philosophies. Punishment should fit the crime: human behaviour is a product of rational choice and calculation, rather than biological, psychological or spiritual predispositions. Limitations: failure of offenders to consider or care about future punishments. These theories emphasize role of opportunity in crime causation. 4 rational choice objectives (pg 23 boundaries: increasing the perceived required by crime, increasing the perceived risk, reducing the anticipated reward, removing excuses for crime. Limitations: presumption of rationality, i have no idea why i did this. I don"t really know why i did it : we cannot limit human behaviour to rational thinking, which would be overly simplistic , crime displacement.

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