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Affect and Cognition in Criminal Decision Making

Affect and Cognition in Criminal Decision Making

Hardcover

Series: Crime Science

CriminologyGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0415658489
ISBN13: 9780415658485
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 13 2013
Pages: 246
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

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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