CRIM 101 Study Guide - Summer 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Criminal Justice, Criminology, Canada
12 Oct 2018
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They make imperfect choices under imperfect circumstances: the completion of an offence involves multiple choices. Offenders must choose how to perform tasks before, during, and after the commission of the offence. Crime & punishment: an economic approach : 1968 neo-classical school derek cornish & ronald clarke. Its concepts (e. g. nodes, paths, edges) describe how offenders move in the urban environment: brantingham & brantingham (1981, peoples routine activities imply movement, the built environment dictates how people travel between locations. Decisions are bounded by the limits of our knowledge and circumstances, and so our rationality is bounded. Imperfect decisions made under imperfect circumstances offenders evaluate alternatives within the limits of their knowledge and abilities. Key takeaways: the roots of sociological approaches to criminal behaviour and deviance are traced back to the ideas from. Institutional imbalance (institutional-anomie), in which the economy dominates political system, education, and the family: leads to an amoral ends justify the means attitude in society.
