Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Preface -- Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Rational Choice Approaches to Crime -- Empirical Studies of Criminal Decision Making -- Theoretical Issues -- Conclusions -- Part One Empirical Studies of Criminal Decision Making -- Chapter 2 Shoplifters' Perceptions of Crime Opportunities: A Process-Tracing Study -- Editors' Note -- Criminal Rationality -- Appropriate Methods -- A Study of Shoplifters' Thoughts -- Generalizations -- Chapter 3 Victim Selection Procedures Among Economic Criminals: The Rational Choice Perspective -- Editors' Note -- Introduction: Contrasting Attitudes to Rationality -- Differing Conceptions of Rationality -- Rationality and Risk -- Present Research: Aims and Methods -- Results -- Conclusions -- Chapter 4 Robbers as Decision-Makers -- Editors' Note -- The Decision to Rob -- Planning -- Decisions Concerning Means -- Decisions Concerning Weapons and Force -- Learning and Decisions to Continue -- Rationality -- Implications for Research -- Implications for Policy -- Chapter 5 The Decision to Give Up Crime -- Editor's Note -- Shock -- Delayed Deterrence -- Assessment -- A Reevaluation of Goals -- The Decision -- Aging -- Backsliding -- Women and Jobs -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 A Decision-Making Approach to Opioid Addiction -- Editors' Note -- Searching for Causes: A Look Backward -- Understanding Drug-Taking Careers: A Look Forward -- The Cambridge Study of Opioid Users -- Summary and Discussion -- A Final Comment -- Part Two Theoretical Issues -- Chapter 7 On the Compatibility of Rational Choice and Social Control Theories of Crime -- Editors' Note -- Social Disorganization -- Social Control Theory -- Integrated Theory in Sociology -- Causation and Determinism -- Crime and Criminality