SOC 2230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Burglary, Rationality, Economic Security
28 Oct 2016
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2 big criminological perspectives to try to understand the burglars and what they are up to. Use rational choice theory, use phenomenological criminology. Rational choice theory: understand in which places they use rct. Many people reject rct: the idea of a rational choice is a problem: a fully rational choice seems to be impossible. Choice made on costs and benefits: to make a fully rational decision, a person must: Choose option in the end which is most beneficial. Offe(cid:374)der does(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) pro(cid:271)a(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) of s(cid:272)ori(cid:374)g/getti(cid:374)g (cid:271)usted on a job. Make crude assessment of net benefits of each course of action. Have an accurate assessment of all benefits and all costs. No one knows all of that hence, a fully rational choice seems impossible. Classical rct: often rejected because it seems to present a model of a person as thinking and calculating. When you throw emotion into the equation, that is not so.
