criminals at best engage in limited rational decision making and, therefore, these theories may have limited explanatory power. Such explanations are also likely to be dependent on the type of criminal activity, for example, perhaps burglary and robbery are more dependent on economic conditions where other types of less economically motivated violent crime may be less so” (Matthew C. Scheider Ph.D., 2012). The economy does not impact all aspects of crime, just particular crimes which makes logical…
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