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RATIONAL CHOICE AND SITUATIONAL CRIME PREVENTION
THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS |
| By: |
Professor Graeme R. Newman, Ronald V. Clarke, Shlomo Shoham (Editor) |
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| ISBN 10: |
1855219476 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781855219472 |
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| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
28 August, 1997 |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Description: |
This text on the role of rational choice and situational choice theory in relation to crime prevention and crime policy, examines: the role of opportunity; rational choice and the legal model of the criminal; the social demand for crime prevention; and the ethics of situational crime prevention. |
| Synopsis: |
A collection of original papers examining the theoretical and philosophical bases of the perspective of situational crime prevention. Among issues examined are: the status of situational crime prevention as a theory; the theoretical traditions and context of SCP; the relationship of rational choice to SCP; utilitarianism and SCP; and the ethical./policy implications of SCP. |
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index |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Ashgate Publishing Limited |
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Returnable |