Prompt: Each student must then appropriately and professionally respond to at least one other students post. These responses should constructively critique the post. Consider: what makes sense about your classmates post? What flaws can you see in the post? These responses should also be 2-3 paragraphs long and will be worth 10 points.
Below is what you need to reply to:
Rational choice theory is one of the theories that I feel best explains criminal activity. I believe this to be true because rational choice theory focuses on the simple decision making process a criminal creates before committing a crime. Whether it be violence, abuse, robbery, or anything under the umbrella of criminal activity, I believe that every action made had consequences that the criminal was aware of. However, I would not consider this to be the best theory to explaining criminal activity. I believe that social process theory explains criminal activity the best mainly because it has several independent branches associated with it.
When you think about rational choice theory and social process theory, one could infer that rational choice theory focuses on rationality and the other on social interactions. This assumption comes from reading the first word in both theories but both theories are more than just there first words. Rational choice theory, as it is stated in the text, is ” the view that crime is a function of a decision-making process in which the potential offender weighs the potential costs and benefits of an illegal act”. Social process theory, as it states in the text, is ” the view that criminality is a function of people’s interactions with various organizations, institutions, and processes in society”. To further explain social process theory, the branches that tie into this theory are social learning theory, social control theory, and social reacting theory. Each of these branches pertain to the theory that criminals obtain their behavior from a social interaction or people around them. I like this one the best because bullies in school usually get their behavior from social interactions at home such as absent parents, bullying from parents, or fighting from parents and from this point the child could potentially carry his bullying mentality onto the real world.
Rational theory does well with explaining that criminals are made from their own decisions but it doesn’t leave room for why the criminal even created a thought process in the first place. What makes a person want to become a criminal and what separates professionals from amateurs? I agree that you have to think about an illegal act before you commit it but what if you just get caught up in it by “wrong place wrong time”. This is where social process theory comes in, often times it could be the crowd you are around that gets you caught up. Peer pressure is very strong and has a lot to do with social process theory. The only thing I would argue that social process could fix is nothing. I believe this theory does a good job in explaining it’s reasoning and defining each branch.
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