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Criminal's Society Reentry and Various Influential Factors

Gottredson and Hirschis Self-Control Theory contends that criminal behavior is perpetuated to meet the perpetrators own self-inter...

Three Questions on Behavioral Finance

is made. Mayes cites 6 reasons that may impact on a rational judgment, these are overconfidence, fear of regret, cognitive dissona...

Criminal Justice II

ended at the boundaries of the Catholic church which was barely recognized by Anglicans. Not until the mid-18th century was...

Article Analysis: Approaches to Ethnic Conflict

This 5 page paper compares two articles, Ariel Dorfman's September, 1973 and My Pin-Up by Hilton Als. The writer contrasts the rat...

Family Dynamics Models, Rational Choice and Family Policy

would entail having to heat up something else for him. Perhaps, the mother thinks, she could make spaghetti for her family, find s...

Wendy Hunter's Eroding Military Influence in Brazil Politicians Against Soldiers

This text is discussed with the focus being on the author's proposed 'rational choice theory' in eight pages. There are no other ...

Analyzing the Theory of Rational Choice

In five pages this research paper applies the rational choice theory to the social sciences and discusses basic points along with ...

Rational Decision Making and Consumerism

In eight pages relevant marketing and economic issues are considered within the context of consumerism and making rational choices...

The Communication Process

is being communicated, and encoding is the way in which the information would be communicated. Encoding needs to take into conside...

Rational Choice Theory

to look at the thinking process in the planning stages as well as during a later involvement in an offence ("Rational Choice Theor...

Free Rider And Rational Choice Theory

free rider problem: "external or collective consequences of individual actions...[and] structures of communication and networks wh...

Public Policy and Health Care

In twenty pages U.S. health care is examined within philosophical, legal, and historical contexts to evaluate the effects of vario...

Nonrational Organizations and Rational Choices

In five pages this paper examines how organizations have evolved from nonrational into rational entities. Five sources are cited ...

Marxist Viewpoint on Rational Choice

theories that serve to establish a basis upon which law enforcement and behavioral experts can better understand the reason for it...

European Union Membership of the Czech Republic

necessary in order to meet EU requirements (Miko, et al, 1998). Meeting the environmental requirements of the EU proved to be one ...

An Analysis of Crime and Punishment in Dead Man Walking

This three page paper analyzes crime and punishment from the perspective of the film by Tim Robbins. The question of whether just...

Capacity, Income and the Multiplier Mechanism

at the maximum capacity it presently is able to achieve. If the company is profitable or has promise of being profitable, it will...

Hepatotoxicity/Mechanisms

have been associated with NRTIs, which are believed to cause mitochondrial dysfunction, which range from oxidative damage to inhib...

Cohabiting Couples; Establishing a Beneficial Interest

these is a resulting trust. If the former partner is seen to have made a contribution to the purchase of the property or assets, e...

Defense Mechanisms

to affect them. Authors write that confronting obstacles means that one is able to come to terms with their difficulties to minimi...

Types and Characteristics of Social Control Mechanisms

law in the back seat asking how fast one is driving. The former is a legal rule and the threat of a speeding ticket hangs over the...

Decision Making Models

of their own limited abilities or because of the conditions that exist in the organization (Lahti, 2003). Other assumptions includ...

Why Is Power Productive For Foucault?

who went before, without any question as to why things are accomplished in any certain order, the time for the Enlightenment symbo...

The Strengths of African American Families

7 pages ad 4 sources. This paper outlines the basic principles presented in Robert Bernard Hill's The Strengths of African Americ...

The Application of Self-Analysis: Rational Emotive Thinking

and could not get it back. I felt like I was a bad person because I had put the project off so long. I became depressed because ...

Costs and the Break-even Point at Guillermo Furniture Store

control system the company may be able to use in order to show the view of my station goes on that. One approach that can be advoc...

Hyper-rationality in the Capital Markets

decisions there is a process he referred to as satisficing. In this model the individuals making the decision do not shoos the opt...

Dying and Death

1993). The issue of longevity and lifespan has long fascinated poets and perplexed gerontologists (scientists who study the c...

Staying Rational in an Irrational World by Michael Bernard

This paper examines the rational theories of Albert Ellis in this review of Michael Bernard's text Staying Rational in an Irration...

Rational Theory, Science, and Political Science

the idea of introducing the idea of rational choice theory into the study of political science (Anonymous, 2000). Rational choice ...