Structural predictors of choice
Testing a multilevel rational choice theory of crime
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9680946 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kyle J Thomas (0000-0002-7670-9097, University of Colorado Boulder, corresponding author), Eric P Baumer (0000-0003-1495-6962, Pennsylvania State University), Thomas A Loughran (Pennsylvania State University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 606-636 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-1384 • E-ISSN: 1745-9125 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1745-9125.12314 |
| OpenAlex | W4283816826 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 98 |
Extant research has provided support for the micro‐level predictions of rational choice models of crime. Yet, a central feature of the rational choice perspective in the broader social sciences—that it is multilevel in focus, situating individuals within broader community social structures—has been neglected within criminology. In this article, we discuss and test a model that links community structural characteristics to several individual expectations and preferences relevant to crime. Using data from the Pathways to Desistance study, we find that objective levels of neighborhood concentrated disadvantage influence individuals’ perceptions of, and preferences for, the risks, costs, and rewards associated with offending indirectly by affecting perceived disorder and perceived opportunities for legitimate avenues of success within one's neighborhood. The implications of a multilevel rational choice model of offending are discussed
Criminal behavior · Criminology · Disadvantage · Extant taxon · Multilevel model · Perception · Perspective (graphical · Rational choice theory (criminology · Sociology · Test (biology · Computer Science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Psychology · Social Psychology · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
Revisiting the tautology problem in rational choice theory
Moving to Crime Opportunity
Neighborhood Context Shapes Effects of Physical Disorder and Spatial Knowledge on Burglars’ Location Choice
Focal Visual Attention in Crime Decision Making
Neighborhood Disadvantage, Social Groups, and Adolescent Violence
If the Cops Won’t, Maybe a Gang Will
Are Group Settings Intoxicating? Groups, Alcohol, and the Situational Dynamics of Violence
Rational choice models of crime decision‐making
Unpacking Unexplored Psychological Factors in Alcohol and Substance Use in Gang Members
Relative Labor Market Utility Perceptions and Offending
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Illegal Earnings, Opportunity Structures and the Timing of Life Transitions
Effect of Early Interactions With the Police on Intertemporal Choice
Decision Making in the Real World
When the World Falls Apart
Examining Firearm Offenses
Choice, Social Structure, and Crime
Moral Salience, Situational Moral Evaluations, and Criminal Choice
Does crime (n)ever skip a beat? Analyzing crime heartbeats in a European city
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Recency and decay effects in sanction risk updating
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The American Dream
Perceptions of Potential White-Collar Criminals in Romania
Drugs, crime, and social isolation
Social sources of delinquency
Armed Robbers in Action
Rational Choice Sociology
Great American City
The Current State of Differential Association Theory
Criminal Deterrence
Seductions of Crime
Social Disorganization and Stake in Conformity
Individual Perceptions of the Criminal Justice System
An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances
A Mathematical Theory of Communication
Demographic and Economic Change in Developed Countries
Hierarchical linear models
Distinction
Principles of Criminology
The Truly Disadvantaged
Estimating Latent Preferences for Crime
Examining the Effect of Residential Mobility on Crime Through the Mechanism of Perceived Informal Social Costs
The Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice
The Handbook of Criminological Theory
A Reconceptualization of General and Specific Deterrence
Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas
Market Wages and Youth Crime
A social neuroscience perspective on adolescent risk-taking
Cumulative Disadvantage in the American Criminal Justice System
Elaborating the Individual Difference Component in Deterrence Theory
Neighborhood Disadvantage and Biological Aging
Neighbourhood context and unsolved murders
Burglars on the Job, Streetlife and Residential Break-ins
Crime and Work
Social Anatomy of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Violence
The effects of devaluation and solvability on crime clearance
Deterrence
Lower Class Culture as a Generating Milieu of Gang Delinquency
Participation in Illegitimate Activities
Crime and Punishment
Neighborhood Structural Characteristics, Individual‐level Attitudes, and Youths' Crime Reporting Intentions
Neighborhood Disadvantage and Police Notification by Victims of Violence
Toward a Bifurcated Theory of Emotional Deterrence
The Missing Link in General Deterrence Research
Testing a Bayesian Learning Theory of Deterrence Among Serious Juvenile Offenders
A Dual‐systems Approach for Understanding Differential Susceptibility to Processes of Peer Influence
Can Rational Choice Be Considered a General Theory of Crime? Evidence From Individual‐level Panel Data
Moving Choice to Center Stage in Criminological Research and Theory
Residential Change as a Turning Point in the Life Course of Crime
Not Just “For the Thrill of It”
Toward an Analytical Criminology
Perceived arrest risk, psychic rewards, and offense specialization
Learning to Be Bad
Testing a rational choice model of “desistance
Bourdieu, rational action and the time‐space strategy of gentrification
Carjacking, Streetlife and Offender Motivation
Social Disorganization and Theories of Crime and Delinquency
Social Structure and Anomie
Destiny and Drift
Crime, Deterrence, and Rational Choice
Enduring Individual Differences and Rational Choice Theories of Crime
Social Learning and Deviant Behavior
Deterring Delinquents
Violence, Older Peers, and the Socialization of Adolescent Boys in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods
Conscience, Significant Others, and Rational Choice
Decisions to Participate in and Desist from Four Types of Common Delinquency
Legal Cynicism and (Subcultural?) Tolerance of Deviance
Deterrence
The Impact of Social Structure on Economic Outcomes
Do Better Wages Reduce Crime? A Research Note
Neighborhood Disadvantage, Disorder, and Health
Gangstas, Thugs, and Hustlas
Delinquency, Situational Inducements, and Commitment to Conformity
Interpreting Community Effects on Youth Educational Attainment
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Sociological Rational Choice Theory
Decision-Making Processes in Social Contexts
Escaping Distressed Neighborhoods
Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces
Constraints and choices in mothers' employment careers
| Unique citing works | 28 |
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| Citations per year | 9,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |