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How is criminal behavior explicable according to rational choice theory?
Answered by Ms. Sue
This theory propounds that a personal makes a rational choice to commit a crime to benefit him/herself. The criminal knows the behavior is risky but takes the chance of not being caught.

Check this site for more information.

http://www.umsl.edu/~keelr/200/ratchoc.html
Answered by GuruBlue
These sites may give you some insight into this question.

http://www.justice.govt.nz/pubs/reports/2005/burglary/police-practice-literature-review/chapter-1.html
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:EJ2yTu16oTUJ:www.sidos.ch/method/RC28/abstracts/Rolf%2520Becker.pdf+criminal+behavior+explicable+according+to+rational+choice+theory&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=9&gl=us&ie=UTF-8
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:7wPCM-29RlAJ:www.law.indiana.edu/ilj/volumes/v77/no1/wendell.pdf+criminal+behavior+explicable+according+to+rational+choice+theory&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&ie=UTF-8
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