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Criminal Decision-Making

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For my article I chose, “Decision Making in the Crime Commission Process: Comparing Rapist, Child Molesters, and Victim-Crossover Sex Offenders” by Eric Beauregard, Benoit Leclerc, and Patrick Lussier. In traditional beliefs it suggests sex offenders are mainly driven by an uncontrollable urge to sexually offend. This article takes a looks into comparing how rapist, child molesters, and victim-crossover sex offenders make their criminal decisions. It investigated how decision-making is involved in target selection. The researchers used mixed methods along with Clarke and Cornish’s decision-making model to evaluate the offender’s actions. In the first studies, sex offenders’ decision-making was investigated using the rational choice approach. …show more content…

Just like bank robbers, there is a rational choice to do it. The crimes are from a rational choice. These are made through taking advantage of a criminal opportunity. Similar to how committing a bank robbery, the criminal must have a plan on how to do the crime without getting caught. This must be done as fast as possible without any police chasing after them. As well as in sexual assaults where the offender must make sure there is nobody watching him or her and be hidden to avoid getting caught. There is a thought process and that the offender is aware of what they are doing but do it anyways with a goal in mind. They may do it with the thought of not getting caught. Aspects are considered such as accessibility to victims, familiarity with the type of crime, experience with the crime, amount of time needed to commit the crime, if there is danger involved, and the risk of getting …show more content…

In this case, the goal is sexual gratification. Just as Clarke and Cornish put it in our Criminology textbook, the rational choice perspective is when people make decisions with the goal to maximize pleasure and minimize pain, and that people evaluate the options and choose what they believe will satisfy their needs (Adler, Criminology 8th Ed., pg. 208). People have a sense of what they want to ultimately get out of the situation. These are decisions made with free will. So with rational choice, it is a thought out choice. The offender decides whether or not the choice will be beneficial. Even though everything cannot be possibly thought out and planned by an offender perfectly but they can rely on the course things taking place at the time of the

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