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The place of rational choice in criminology and risk analysis

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The danger in both criminology and risk analysis is that rational choice will be embraced uncritically and without examination of its subtleties, boundaries, and limitations; its dependency on context, its relationship to what is seen (and not seen), what is understood and what is not understood, its embeddedness in both personal and organizational life. That is a challenge worthy of all the social and behavioral sciences.

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    James F. Short (Professor Emeritus of sociology and Research Associate of the Social and Economic Sciences Research Center)

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Short, J.F. The place of rational choice in criminology and risk analysis. Am Soc 28, 61–72 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-997-1007-2

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