Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making

Although the issue of offender decision-making pervades almost every discussion of crime and law enforcement only a few comprehensive texts cover and integrate information about the role of decision-making in crime.<em> The Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making</em> provide high-quality reviews of the main paradigms in offender decision-making such as rational choice theory and dual-process theory. It contains up-to-date reviews of empirical research on decision-making in a wide range of decision types including not only criminal initiation and desistance but also choice of locations times targets victims methods as well as large variety crimes including homicide robbery domestic violence burglary street crime sexual crimes and cybercrime. Lastly it provides in-depth treatments of the major methods used to study offender decision-making including experiments observation studies surveys offender interviews and simulations. <p/>Comprehensive and authoritative the Handbook will quickly become the primary source of theoretical methodological and empirical knowledge about decision-making as it relates to criminal behavior.<br>