CHAPTER 1 Individual Propensities and Rational Decision-Making:Recent Findings and Promising Approaches Stephen G. Tibbetts and Chris L. Gibson 3
CHAPTER 2 Rationality and Corporate Offending Decisions Sally S. Simpson, Nicole Leeper Piquero, and Raymond Paternoster 25
CHAPTER 3 Analyzing Organized Crimes Derek B. Cornish and Ronald V. Clarke 41
CHAPTER 4 Understanding Intoxicated Violence from a Rational Choice Perspective Jean-Marc Assaad and M. Lyn Exum 65
CHAPTER 5 The Rational Choice Implications of Control Balance Theory Alex R. Piquero and Matthew Hickman 85
CHAPTER 6 Sex Differences and Rational Choice: Traditional Tests and New Directions Brenda Sims Blackwell and Sarah Eschholz 109
CHAPTER 7 Premature Affluence, Rational Choice, and Delinquency:Examining the Darker Side of Affluence John Paul Wright 137
CHAPTER 8 Decision Making in Violent Events among Adolescent Males: An Examination of Sparks and Other Motivational Factors Deanna L. Wilkinson 163
CHAPTER 9 "I'm Down for My Organization": The Rationality of Responses to Delinquency, Youth Crime, and Gangs Scott H. Decker and G. David Curry 197
CHAPTER 10 Reconciling Feminism and Rational Choice Theory:Women's Agency in Street Crime Jody Miller 219
CHAPTER 11 Assessing the Rationality of Criminal and Delinquent Behavior: A Focus on Actual Utility Timothy Brezina 241
CHAPTER 12 The Impulsiveness and Routinization of Decision-Making Kenneth D. Tunnell 265
CHAPTER 13 Dangerous Liaison? Rational Choice Theory as the Basis for Correctional Intervention Francis T.. Cullen, Travis C. Pratt, Sharon Levrant Miceli,and Melissa M. Moon 279
CHAPTER 14 The Impact of Lambda Skewness on Criminology:A Contingent Analysis Thomas B. Marvell 297
CHAPTER15 Deterrence, Rational Choice, and Criminal Offending:A Consideration of Legal Subjectivity Michael Massoglia and Ross Macmillan 323
Contributors 341
Index 343