If there is agency and some decision-making process entailed in criminal behavior, then
what are the incentives for crime and for conformity, and what is their role in offending …

The interplay of sanctions, perceptions, and crime has special significance in criminology
and is central to a long tradition of perceptual deterrence research as well as to more recent …

Criminology: Explaining Crime and Its Context, Ninth Edition, is a highly acclaimed textbook
offering a broad perspective on criminological theory. It provides students of criminology and …

Extant research has provided support for the micro‐level predictions of rational choice
models of crime. Yet, a central feature of the rational choice perspective in the broader social …

The relevance of several cognitive heuristics and related biases for rational choice
perspectives on crime, and for perceptions of sanction risk, were investigated. We present …

Abstract Since Hobbes (1957 [1651] and Beccaria (1963 [1764]), scholars have theorized
that the emotion of fear is critical for deterrence. Nevertheless, contemporary deterrence …

The process-based model dominates contemporary American research on police-
community relations and perceptions of police. A sizable literature has examined the …

Research Summary Offender decision‐making generally occurs in social context. In this
article, we discuss the potential for integrating insights on peer processes and decision …

There are more than 20 theories that explain crime. Each theory has weaknesses, and no
scholar knows which theory is best. To remedy this unsatisfactory situation a new research …

Objectives To investigate how peer dynamics, specifically interpersonal conversations
between a potential offender and a peer, contemporaneous with a crime opportunity …