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Agent-Based Modelling for Criminological Theory Testing and
Development addresses the question whether and how we can use
simulation methods in order to test criminological theories, and if
they fail to be corroborated, how we can use simulation to mend and
further develop theories. It is by no means immediately obvious how
results being observed in an artificial environment have any
relevance for what is going on in the real world. By using the
concept of a "stylized fact," the contributors bridge the gap
between artificial and real world. With backgrounds in criminology
or artificial intelligence (AI), these contributors present
agent-based model studies that test aspects of various theories,
including crime pattern theory, guardianship in action theory, near
repeat theory, routine activity theory, and general deterrence
theory. All six simulation models presented have been specially
developed for the book. Contributors have specified the theory,
identified stylized facts, developed an agent-based simulation
model, let it run, and interpreted whether the chosen stylized fact
is occurring in their model, and what we should conclude from
congruence or incongruence between simulation and expectations
based on the theory under scrutiny. The final chapter discusses
what can be learnt from these six enterprises. The book will be of
great interest to scholars of criminology (in particular
computational criminologists and theoretical criminologists) and AI
(with an emphasis on AI for generative social processes), and more
widely researchers in social science in general. It will also be
valuable for master's courses in quantitative criminology.
Research and theorizing on criminal decision making has not kept
pace with recent developments in other fields of human decision
making. Whereas criminal decision making theory is still largely
dominated by cognitive approaches such as rational choice-based
models, psychologists, behavioral economists and neuroscientists
have found affect (i.e., emotions, moods) and visceral factors such
as sexual arousal and drug craving, to play a fundamental role in
human decision processes. This book examines alternative approaches
to incorporating affect into criminal decision making and testing
its influence on such decisions. In so doing it generalizes extant
cognitive theories of criminal decision making by incorporating
affect into the decision process. In two conceptual and ten
empirical chapters it is carefully argued how affect influences
criminal decisions alongside rational and cognitive considerations.
The empirical studies use a wide variety of methods ranging from
interviews and observations to experimental approaches and
questionnaires, and treat crimes as diverse as street robbery,
pilfering, and sex offences. It will be of interest to
criminologists, social psychologists, judgment and decision making
researchers, behavioral economists and sociologists alike.
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The Crime Data Handbook
Ian Brunton-Smith, Tim Verlaan, Henk Elffers, Sam Langton, Stuart Thomas, …
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R3,456
Discovery Miles 34 560
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Agent-Based Modelling for Criminological Theory Testing and
Development addresses the question whether and how we can use
simulation methods in order to test criminological theories, and if
they fail to be corroborated, how we can use simulation to mend and
further develop theories. It is by no means immediately obvious how
results being observed in an artificial environment have any
relevance for what is going on in the real world. By using the
concept of a "stylized fact," the contributors bridge the gap
between artificial and real world. With backgrounds in criminology
or artificial intelligence (AI), these contributors present
agent-based model studies that test aspects of various theories,
including crime pattern theory, guardianship in action theory, near
repeat theory, routine activity theory, and general deterrence
theory. All six simulation models presented have been specially
developed for the book. Contributors have specified the theory,
identified stylized facts, developed an agent-based simulation
model, let it run, and interpreted whether the chosen stylized fact
is occurring in their model, and what we should conclude from
congruence or incongruence between simulation and expectations
based on the theory under scrutiny. The final chapter discusses
what can be learnt from these six enterprises. The book will be of
great interest to scholars of criminology (in particular
computational criminologists and theoretical criminologists) and AI
(with an emphasis on AI for generative social processes), and more
widely researchers in social science in general. It will also be
valuable for master's courses in quantitative criminology.
This book brings together an influential group of academics and
researchers to review key areas of research, theory and methodology
within criminology and criminal justice, and to identify the most
important new challenges facing the discipline. The contributors
focus on the three central themes of punishment and criminal
justice, location and mobility, and perpetrators and criminal
careers, on which much cutting edge research within criminology has
been taking place. A particular strength of the book is its
multidisciplinary and international approach, with contributors
drawn from Europe, the UK and the United States.
The aim of this book, first published in 1991, is not to examine
the moral or economic rights and wrongs of the issue, but to
introduce a fresh way of exploring this old but growing problem.
Research into tax evasion has been bedevilled with measurement
problems: the hidden economy has been well named. The key is to
design experimental situations that engage the same psychological
processes as their real-world counterparts. This has been achieved
by embedding the declaration of taxes in simulated business games.
A feature of the research is that it is cross-national (carried out
in the Netherlands and the UK), which also enhances ecological
validity. This work will be of particular interest to applied
social psychologists, tax researchers and experimental economists.
Research and theorizing on criminal decision making has not kept
pace with recent developments in other fields of human decision
making. Whereas criminal decision making theory is still largely
dominated by cognitive approaches such as rational choice-based
models, psychologists, behavioral economists and neuroscientists
have found affect (i.e., emotions, moods) and visceral factors such
as sexual arousal and drug craving, to play a fundamental role in
human decision processes. This book examines alternative approaches
to incorporating affect into criminal decision making and testing
its influence on such decisions. In so doing it generalizes extant
cognitive theories of criminal decision making by incorporating
affect into the decision process. In two conceptual and ten
empirical chapters it is carefully argued how affect influences
criminal decisions alongside rational and cognitive considerations.
The empirical studies use a wide variety of methods ranging from
interviews and observations to experimental approaches and
questionnaires, and treat crimes as diverse as street robbery,
pilfering, and sex offences. It will be of interest to
criminologists, social psychologists, judgment and decision making
researchers, behavioral economists and sociologists alike.
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.
This book brings together an influential group of academics and
researchers to review key areas of research, theory and methodology
within criminology and criminal justice, and to identify the most
important new challenges facing the discipline. The contributors
focus on the three central themes of punishment and criminal
justice, location and mobility, and perpetrators and criminal
careers, on which much cutting edge research within criminology has
been taking place. A particular strength of the book is its
multidisciplinary and international approach, with contributors
drawn from Europe, the UK and the United States. The book is based
on papers first presented at the tenth anniversary meeting of the
Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement at
the University of Leiden. The book will be essential reading for
anyone with an interest in criminological and criminal justice
research and its likely future direction.
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