Cognition and crime : offender decision making and script analyses / / edited by Benoit LeClerc and Richard Wortley

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910817586903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2014
• ISBN: 1-138-92235-8; 1-136-18534-8; 0-203-08348-2; 1-136-18535-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxi, 261 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Crime Science Series ; ; 13
• Disciplina: 364.3
• Soggetti: Criminal psychology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover ; Cognition and Crime; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents ; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 1 The Reasoning Criminal: twenty-five years on; 2 What are violent offenders thinking?; 3 How house burglars decide on targets: a computer-based scenario approach; 4 The risks and rewards of motor vehicle theft: implications for criminal persistence; 5 The rational choice perspective and the phenomenon of stalking: an examination of sex differences in behaviours, rationales, situational precipitators and feelings; 6 Interpersonal scripts and victim reaction in child sexual abuse: a quantitative analysis of the offender-victim interchange7 Drug dealing: Amsterdam's Red Light District; 8 Human trafficking for sexual exploitation in Italy; 9 Script analysis of corruption in public procurement; 10 Cigarette smuggling and terrorism financing: a script approach; 11 Script analysis of the transnational illegal market in endangered species: dream and reality; 12 New developments in script analysis for situational crime prevention: moving beyond offender scripts; 13 Rational choice and offender decision making: lessons from the cognitive sciencesIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: <P>The rational choice perspective developed by Cornish and Clarke in 1986 provides criminologists with a valuable and practical framework for purposes of crime control and prevention. More than twenty-five years later, <I>Cognition and Crime</I> pushes the boundaries of this field of research by bringing together international leading (or emerging) researchers in this area of script analysis into a single volume for the first time. It also presents a series of original contributions on offender decision-making during crime and crime script analysis as well as offering a critical perspective o