Cognition and crime : offender decision making and script analyses /: offender decision making and script analyses. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Benoit LeClerc and Richard Wortley.
• Other Names: LeClerc, Benoit; Wortley, Richard (Richard K.)
• Contents: List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword / Cornish, Derek B -- Contributor biographies -- 1. The reasoning criminal / Leclerc, Benoit and Wortley, Richard -- 2. What are violent offenders thinking? / Felson, Richard -- 3. How house burglars decide on targets : a computer-based scenario approach / Homel, Ross, MacIntyre, Stuart and Wortley, Richard -- 4. The risks and rewards of motor vehicle theft : implications for criminal persistence / Copes, Heith and Cherbonneau, Michael -- 5. The rational choice perspective and the phenomenon of stalking : an examination of sex differences in behaviours, rationales, situational precipitators and feelings / Thompson, Carleen and Leclerc, Benoit -- 6. Interpersonal scripts and victim reaction in child sexual abuse : a quantitative analysis of the offender-victim interchange / Leclerc, Benoit, Smallbone, Stephen and Wortley, Richard -- 7. Drug dealing : Amsterdam's Red Light district / Jacques, Scott and Bernasco, Wim -- 8. Human trafficking for sexual exploitation in italy / Savona, Ernesto, Giommoni, Luca and Mancuso, Marina -- 9. Script analysis of corruption in public procurement / Zanella, Marco -- 10. Cigarette smuggling and terrorism financing : a script approach / Hiropoulos, Alexandra, Freilich, Joshua, Chermak, Steven and Newman, Graeme -- 11. Script analysis of the transnational illegal market in endangered species : dream and reality / Moreto, William and Clarke, Ronald V -- 12. New developments in script analysis for situational crime prevention : moving beyond offender scripts / Leclerc, Benoit -- 13. Rational choice and offender decision making : lessons from the cognitive sciences / Wortley, Richard -- References -- Bibliography.
• Publisher Details: Abingdon, Oxon New York : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxi, 261 pages)
• Subjects: 364.3; Criminal psychology; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology; Criminal psychology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781136185342; 1136185348; 9781136185359; 1136185356
• Related ISBNs: 9780415688604; 0415688604
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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