What are the factors related to making the decision to commit a crime according to the rational choice perspective?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: [key points to be made]
*Offenders will weigh potential costs and benefits to be expected
*Offenders use crime-specific needs and demands in process of “limited” rationality
*Involvement decisions is choice to commit crime itself with cost/benefit analysis
*Event decisions explain the specific tactics and measures chosen to affect the offense
*Easier methods make the crime more likely as to perceptions of not getting caught
Objective: Process of decision making that takes place relative to committing crime according to the rational choice perspective
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