Enduring Individual Differences and Rational Choice Theories of Crime
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5153145 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel S Nagin (0000-0003-0075-1851, Carnegie Mellon University), Raymond Paternoster (0000-0002-6435-4962) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 467-496 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Society Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-9216 • E-ISSN: 1540-5893 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3054102 |
| OpenAlex | W2007542374 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 271 |
| References cited | 44 |
In explaining crime, some criminological theories emphasize time-stable individual differences in propensity to offend while others emphasize more proximate and situational factors. Using scenario data from a sample of college undergraduates we have found evidence to support both positions. A measure of criminal propensity (poor self-control) was found to be significantly related to self-reported decisions to commit three offenses (drunk driving, theft, and sexual assault). Even after considering differences in self-control, there was evidence to suggest that the attractiveness of the crime target, the ease of committing the crime with minimum risk, and perceptions of the costs and benefits of committing the crime were all significantly related to offending decisions. Our results suggest that theories of criminal offending should include notions pertaining to persistent individual differences in criminal propensity and choice-relevant variables
Criminology · Economics · Positive economics · Rational choice theory (criminology · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Psychology · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
Birds of a Feather?
Kriminalität im Alltag
School Bonding in Children and Adolescents
The social side of sanctions
Jugend, Recht und Kriminalität
Emotions in Offender Decision Making
Self-control behind bars
Low Self-Control and Fraud
The Role of Negative Emotion in General Strain Theory
Does the Perceived Risk of Punishment Deter Criminally Prone Individuals? Rational Choice, Self-Control, and Crime
Identifying “deterrable” offenders
Self-Control, Social Consequences, and Criminal Behavior
Something Old, Something New
Rational Choice and Developmental Influences on Recidivism Among Adolescent Felony Offenders
Neutralization
Can Punishment Encourage Offending? Investigating The “resetting” Effect
Gender, Self-Control, and Crime
Parental Socialization and Community Context
Gender, Age, and Crime/Deviance
Deterrence
Sanctions, Perceptions, and Crime
Individual Perceptions of the Criminal Justice System
Beyond Stafford and Warr's Reconceptualization of Deterrence
Rational Choice Theory
The Role of Arrest Risk Perception Formation in the Association Between Psychopathy and Aggressive Offending
Explaining youth aggression
Revisiting the tautology problem in rational choice theory
The nature and role of morality in situational action theory
Impulsivity or Discounting? Evaluating the Influence of Individual Differences in Temporal Orientation on Offending
Preconditions for guardianship interventions in cyberbullying
Criminal Self-Efficacy and Perceptions of Risk and Reward among Women Methamphetamine Manufacturers
Morality, Deterrability, and Offender Decision Making
Do Morality and Self-Control Protect from Criminogenic Peer Influence? Testing Multidimensional Person–Environment Interactions
Revisiting Bad Apples and Bad Barrels
For Whom Is School Suspension Criminogenic? Self-Control and Variation in Labeling Effects
Religion, Accountability, and the Risk of Aggressive Misconduct Among Prisoners
Rational Choice Theory Applied to an Explanation of Juvenile Offender Decision Making in the Chinese Setting
A Configurational Analysis of the Causes of Consumer Indirect Misbehaviors in Access-Based Consumption
Cyber incivility
How Sweet is the Deal? The Effect of Incentives on College Students’ Willingness to Sugar Date
Moral Disengagement, Lack of Guilt, and Offending-Related Exhilaration
Self-Control and Delinquency in China
Toward Integrated Processual Theories of Crime
Modeling Individual Defiance of Covid-19 Pandemic Mitigation Strategies
Beyond Norms
The Impact of Relaxing Internal Migration Restrictions on Urban Natives' Subjective Well‐Being
Rational choice models of crime decision‐making
Constrained Choice? The Role of Co-Offenders and Structural Context in the Decision to Escalate Interpersonal Violence
Who Would ‘Purge’? Low Self-Control, Psychopathy, and Offending in the Absence of Legal Controls
The Differential Relationship between Self-Control and Peer Influences over Time
Effect of Early Interactions With the Police on Intertemporal Choice
Examining the Effect of Residential Mobility on Crime Through the Mechanism of Perceived Informal Social Costs
Crime Prevention in the Classroom
Low Self-Control, Expected Utility, and Intimate Partner Violence
Examining the Relationship Between Cognitive Ability and Arrest Using a Differential Offenses Hypothesis
Concern, Cynicism, and the Coronavirus
Deterring the Drunk Driver
Examining Firearm Offenses
Certainty, But How Certain? Severity, But How Severe? A Quasi-Experimental Study on Digital Piracy Deterrence in a Spanish Citizens Sample
Moral Salience, Situational Moral Evaluations, and Criminal Choice
Using Vignettes to Assess Gendered Responses to Strain
A Pimp's Game
A Life-Course Theory of Cumulative Disadvantage and the Stability of Delinquency
Kriminalsoziologie
Caregivers' perceptions of informal social control practices to reduce child neglect
Danger and the Decision to Offend
Specifying the direct and indirect effects of low self-control and situational factors in offenders' decision making
Parental Efficacy, Self-Control, and Delinquency
An Empirical Test of a General Theory of Crime
Criminal victimization and low self-control
Power and Control Dynamics in Domestic Sex Trafficking
Criminal Deterrence Research at the Outset of the Twenty-First Century
Differences between criminal justice majors and noncriminal justice majors in determinants of test cheating intentions
Censored Regression in Response to the Distributional Realities of Crime and Justice Measures
Gender, Internal Controls, and Academic Dishonesty
Changes in Scholarly Influence in Major American Criminology and Criminal Justice Journals Between 1986 and 2005
Changes in the Most-Cited Scholars and Works Over 25 Years
Predicting cannabis cultivation on national forests using a rational choice framework
Years of Factorial Surveys in Sociology
Do You Get What You Pay for? Assessing the Use of Prison from an Economic Perspective
The Intersectionality of Self-Esteem, Low Self-Control, and Self-Compassion Among Prisoners
Self-Conscious Emotions and Criminal Offending
Self-Control, Deviant Peers, and Software Piracy
Self-Control and Credit-Card Use Among College Students
Self-Control, Deviant Peers, and Software Piracy
Self-Conscious Emotions and Criminal Offending
Self-Control and Credit-Card Use among College Students
Self-Control and Crime
Sanctions, Perceptions, and Crime
Analytic Criminology
Contagio e contatto
Mobilizing extremism
The Effect of Perceived Deterrence on Compliance with Authorities
Community Interaction, Influence, and Child Maltreatment
The ICC and the Prevention of Atrocities
Deterrence, prior experience, and drunk-driving intentions
Creating a people-centred view of risk and restorative justice
Desistance from terrorism
Gender differences in rational decisions on shoplifting
Elaborating the Individual Difference Component in Deterrence Theory
I Never Called It Rape
Sanctions and social deviance
The Kallikak family
The Psychology of Literacy
The Reasoning Criminal
Social Disorganization and Stake in Conformity
Social Change and Crime Rate Trends
Fraternity Gang Rape
Crime, Shame and Reintegration
A General Theory of Crime
Crime in the Making
Sexual Experiences Survey
Crime and Deviance in the Life Course
Modeling Offenders' Decisions
Understanding Crime Displacement
Personal Capital and Social Control
The Onset and Persistence of Offending
The Preventive Effects of the Perceived Risk of Arrest
The Deterrent Effect of Perceived Certainty and Severity of Punishment Revisited
The Stability of Criminal Potential From Childhood to Adulthood
Sexual aggression
A psychological approach to deterrence
Social Inequality and Predatory Criminal Victimization
The Seriousness of Crimes
Crime, Deterrence, and Rational Choice
Crime and Deviance over the Life Course
Conscience, Significant Others, and Rational Choice
Social Change and Crime Rate Trends
The Rationality of Sexual Offending
Decisions to Participate in and Desist from Four Types of Common Delinquency
Tax Compliance and Perceptions of the Risks of Detection and Criminal Prosecution
The Deterrent Effect of Perceived Severity of Punishment
Perceived Risk of Punishment and Self-Reported Delinquency
The Measurement of Delinquency
Delinquency, Situational Inducements, and Commitment to Conformity
Property Crime Rates in the United States
Cross-sectional versus longitudinal research
| Unique citing works | 271 |
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| Citations per year | 8,47 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2026 (33) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 271 |