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出版Simon and Schuster, 1985
主題Social Science / Criminology
ISBN06715413079780671541309
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=uZPSAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The authors review the current research on causes of crime in a number of disciplines, trying to shed light on why some persons commit serious crimes at a high rate and others do not. They argue that explaining crime requires a truly interdisciplinary approach. Economists see individuals allocating scare resources among competing alternatives in order to satisfy their preferences, but economists rarely have much to say about the source or content of those preferences. Psychologists have investigated how preferences are formed, but are not much concerned with how institutions frame the available alternatives or how an individual's sense of justice influences the way in which she or he evaluates those alternatives. Political scientists are able to describe how institutions maintain themselves and their moral authority, but have fewer insights about why individuals behave as they do within those institutions. To combine these insights is to more closely approach a theory of crime causation.