Rational Choice Theory Of Crime

Rational choice is known as a choice theory or rational action for understanding and formally modeling social and economic behavior. When People commit a certain crime they balance of how much they will gain and how much will be loss in terms of getting caught and being punished. Derek Cornish and Ronald Clarke are two scholars that purposed rational choice theory; this theory leads to a preference to control crime through more informal situational prevention. Cornish and Clarke believed that people are not empty vessels when they approach a situation in which a crime is committed. They want people to tastes their own medicine when they’re in a certain criminal situation. Crime involves concrete and sequence choices, must be made if these motivations are the results of the real criminal act, and if the person is more motivated then there is a good chance the person would commit more crimes. Rational choices theory takes us upon how a
Offenders make choices under pressure and not long-term actions. Rational choice theory suggests a more better approach to reducing crime, situational crime prevention meaning by studying how offenders make decisions, crime are prevented not by changing offenders but by changing parts of the situation where offense typically occur. Cornish and Clarke believed that offender only see the positive aspects of Committing the crime and not the negative that they look at the reward more than the consequences when committing a certain crime. The Cosa Nostra, show this theory, when trading of cocaine they don’t think of the result rather off the money, they see the rewards therefore they go ahead with their actions. Organized crime in America is a reflection of American values and on rational choice theory, easy money draws people to organized crime. Rational choice theory, people choose to commit the crime because they think it’s more rewarding and less costly than non criminal