How is criminal behavior explicable according to rational theory? What crime control stratagies are effective according to rational theory? How could crimes like this be prevented according to the rational choice theory?

Answer 1

In addition to studying your text materials (which I'm sure your instructor wants), check these sites.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_choice_theory_(criminology)

http://books.google.com/books?id=o0rjRPnO7K4C&pg=PA72&lpg=PA72&dq=criminal+justice+rational+theory&source=bl&ots=GjqhDiibio&sig=X5Wc4BifaQgSdBRoG5t-2tfd22g&hl=en&ei=QE1eSqu3JY22M5bQsK4C&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2