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Analyzing Rational Crime — Models and Methods

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  • © 2003

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Authors:
  1. Olof Dahlbäck

    1. Department of Sociology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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Part of the book series: Theory and Decision Library A: (TDLA, volume 36)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Olof Dahlbäck
      Pages 1-8

  3. Single Choices

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. General Theoretical Presuppositions

      1. The Assumption of Rationality
        • Olof Dahlbäck
        Pages 13-18
      2. Rational Decisions under Conditions of Risk
        • Olof Dahlbäck
        Pages 19-33
      3. Descriptive Validity of the Rationality Theories of Expected Utility Maximization
        • Olof Dahlbäck
        Pages 34-49
      4. Interpersonal Comparison of Utility
        • Olof Dahlbäck
        Pages 50-57

    3. Analyses

      1. Previous Research
        • Olof Dahlbäck
        Pages 61-70
      2. Research Strategies
        • Olof Dahlbäck
        Pages 71-85
      3. Analyzing the Bivariate Linear Relationships between Choice and Punishment Factors
        • Olof Dahlbäck
        Pages 86-93
      4. Experimental Analysis
        • Olof Dahlbäck
        Pages 94-100
      5. Nonexperimental Analysis
        • Olof Dahlbäck
        Pages 101-105

  4. Aggregated Choices

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-110
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    2. General Theoretical Presuppositions

      1. Applying the Rationality Model to Individual Criminality
        • Olof Dahlbäck
        Pages 113-120
      2. Rationality and Proneness to Taking Risks
        • Olof Dahlbäck
        Pages 121-126
      3. Societal Crime
        • Olof Dahlbäck
        Pages 127-133

    3. Analyses

      1. Previous Research on Individual Criminality
        • Olof Dahlbäck
        Pages 137-146
      2. Previous Research on Societal Crime
        • Olof Dahlbäck
        Pages 147-154
      3. An Aggregation Model
        • Olof Dahlbäck
        Pages 155-162
      4. Basing the Analysis on Crime Opportunity and Crime Propensity Factors
        • Olof Dahlbäck
        Pages 163-173
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Olof Dahlbäck's book breaks new ground for the analysis of crime from a rationality perspective by presenting models and methods that go far beyond those with which researchers have hitherto been equipped. The book examines single crimes, individual criminality, and societal crime, and it discusses thoroughly the general decision theoretical presuppositions necessary for analyzing these various types of crime. An expected utility maximization model for a single discrete choice regarding the commission of a crime is the foundation of most of the analyses presented. A version of this model is developed that permits interpersonal comparisons, and this basic model is used when deriving more complex models of crime as well as when analyzing the potential for such derivations. The rigorous, powerful methods suggested provide considerable opportunities for improving research and for seeing old problems in a new light.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Sociology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

    Olof Dahlbäck

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