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LaDunn

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What are the factors related to making the decision to commit a crime according to the rational choice perspective?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Explain routine activities theory and how it predicts levels of victimization.
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: key points to be made
Offenders will weigh potential costs and benefits to be expected
Offenders use crime-specific needs and demands in process of limited rationality
Involvement decisions is choice to commit crime itself with cost/benefit analysis
Event decisions explain the specific tactics and measures chosen to affect the offense
Easier methods make the crime more likely as to perceptions of not getting caught
Objective: Process of decision making that takes place relative to committing crime according to the rational choice perspective

Answer to Question 2

Answer: key points to be made
Connected interest in ecology (social disorganization) with victimology
Used principles of rationality to explain variation in rates of crime over time
Volume of crime related to patterns of everyday activity & social interaction
As people move away from home-centered activity, crime opportunities move as well
Crime takes place in time and space when motivated offender converges with suitable target
Likelihood of crime increases with the absence of capable guardians



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LaDunn

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Both answers were spot on, thank you once again



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