The Oxford Handbook of
Offender Decision Making
Edited by Wim Bernasco,
Edited by Henk Elffers, and Edited by Jean-Louis van Gelder
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. The Oxford Handbook of Offender
Decision Making 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.
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.
