Derek Cornish

<div>Derek BlaikeCornish's research while affiliated with The London School of Economics and Political Science and other places</div><div>
</div><div>Overview</div><div>
</div><div>Publications (8)</div><div>Modeling Offenders' Decisions: A Framework for Research and Policy: Routine Activity, Rational Choice and their Variants</div><div>Chapter</div><div>Jul 2017</div><div>Ronald V. ClarkeDerek B. Cornish</div><div>Understanding Crime Displacement: An Application of Rational Choice Theory: Routine Activity, Rational Choice and their Variants</div><div>Chapter</div><div>Jul 2017</div><div>Derek B. CornishRonald V. Clarke</div><div>Crime Specialisation, Crime Displacement and Rational Choice Theory</div><div>Chapter</div><div>Jan 1989</div><div>Derek B. CornishRonald V. Clarke</div><div>Criminological explanation has an important, if not always well recognised, role to play in the construction of effective crime control policies. In this context, the assumption behind many traditional accounts, that crime is the expression of the offender’s personality and attitudes, has been particularly influential. Indeed, it reflects a bias towards dispositional thinking which appears as endemic to theorising about crime as it is to theorising about human behavior in general (Ross, 1977). Just as such dispositional assumptions once fuelled the rehabilitative ideal, now in consequence of its apparent failure they underpin the increasing advocacy of “social” crime prevention — that is, those measures which attempt to ameliorate the social, educational, economic and community disadvantages thought to be responsible for the creation of criminal attitudes and values (Clarke & Cornish, 1983).</div><div>Show more</div><div>Heresies Revived: Three Vexing Books</div><div>Article</div><div>Mar 1988Contemporary Sociology</div><div>R. W. EnglandThomas GaborDerek B. Cornish[...]James Q. Wilson</div><div>Understanding crime displacement: An application of rational choice theory</div><div>Article</div><div>Nov 1987Criminology</div><div>DEREK B. CORNISHRONALD V. CLARKE</div><div>It has been claimed that the rational choice perspective, which sees criminal behavior as the outcome of decisions and choices made by the offender, can provide a useful framework for analyzing crime control policies. By developing the concept of “choice-structuring properties,” which refers to the constellation of opportunities, costs, and benefits attaching to particular kinds of crime, this paper attempts to develop rational choice theory in order to improve analysis of crime displacement—a concept frequently invoked by the critics of opportunity-reducing measures of crime prevention.</div><div>Show more</div><div>Modeling Offenders' Decisions: A Framework for Research and Policy</div><div>Article</div><div>Jan 1985Crime and Justice</div><div>Ronald V. ClarkeDerek B. Cornish</div><div>Developments in a number of academic disciplines-the sociology of deviance, criminology, economics, psychology-suggest that it is useful to see criminal behavior not as the result of psychologically and socially determined dispositions to offend, but as the outcome of the offender's broadly rational choices and decisions. This perspective provides a basis for devising models of criminal behavior that (1) offer frameworks within which to locate existing research, (2) suggest directions for new research, (3) facilitate analysis of existing policy, and (4) help to identify potentially fruitful policy initiatives. Such models need not offer comprehensive explanations; they may be limited and incomplete, yet still be "good enough" to achieve these important policy and research purposes. To meet this criterion they need to be specific to particular forms of crime, and they need separately to describe both the processes of involvement in crime and the decisions surrounding the commission of the offense itself. Developing models that are crime specific and that take due account of rationality will also demand more knowledge about the ways in which offenders process and evaluate relevant information. Such a decision perspective appears to have most immediate payoff for crime control efforts aimed at reducing criminal opportunity.</div><div>Show more</div><div>Modeling offenders' decisions : a framework for research and policy / Ronald V. Clarke, Derek B. Cornish</div><div>Article</div><div>Ronald V ClarkeDerek B Cornish</div><div>Incluye bibliografía</div><div>Show more</div><div>Understanding crime displacement : an application of rational choice theory / Derek B. Cornish, Ronald V. Clarke</div><div>Article</div><div>Derek B CornishRonald V Clarke</div><div>Separata de la revista Criminology vol. 25, Nº4 Incluye bibliografía</div><div>Show more</div><div>Citations (873)</div><div>... coaches, parents, or teachers), who remind potential offenders of the possible consequences of their actions, effectively discourage crime by negating excuses such as: "I did not know it was illegal to do it". Cornish and Clarke (1987) suggested that, for a crime prevention strategy to be effective, it must be crime-specific and underpinned by an in-depth understanding of the crime commission process (see also Cornish & Clarke, 1989;Cornish, 1994). To achieve the necessary depth of understanding of the phenomenon, Cornish recommended that a crime script analysis be undertaken as a first step in the development of effective situational crime prevention strategies. ...</div><div>Reference: A script analysis of the role of athletes' support networks as social facilitators in doping in sport</div><div>Crime Specialisation, Crime Displacement and Rational Choice Theory</div><div>Citing chapter</div><div>Jan 1989</div><div>Derek B. CornishRonald V. Clarke</div><div>View</div><div>... The late 1980s and early 1990s saw two related developments that mark the study of criminal decision-making to this day. On the one hand, rational choice perspectives (Clarke and Cornish 1985;Cornish and Clarke 1986) emerged to establish themselves as the principal theore- tical choice models, next to the hitherto dominant deterrence paradigm. On the other, the hypothetical scenario method was introduced to a criminological readership and became the preferred method for testing decision-making perspectives (Klepper and Nagin 1989;Nagin and Paternoster 1993). ...</div><div>Reference: The Virtual Reality Scenario Method: Moving from Imagination to Immersion in Criminal Decision-making Research</div><div>Modeling Offenders' Decisions: A Framework for Research and Policy</div><div>Citing article</div><div>Jan 1985</div><div>Ronald V. ClarkeDerek B. Cornish</div><div>View</div><div>... The assumptions of RCT fit the ISP compliance context well. These assumptions are as follows: (1) people are rational and self-interested, (2) people act rationally when making decisions and (3) people try to increase their pleasure or profit through cost-benefit analyses (Cornish & Clarke, 1987;Paternoster & Simpson, 1996). Notably, this calculation favours the maximisation of pleasure; hence, it represents more of a hedonic calculus than a merely extrinsic calculus (Gul, 2009). ...</div><div>Reference: Cognitive-Affective Drivers of Employees’ Daily Compliance with Information Security Policies: A Multilevel, Longitudinal Study</div><div>Understanding crime displacement: An application of rational choice theory</div><div>Citing article</div><div>Nov 1987</div><div>Derek B. CornishRonald V. Clarke</div><div>View</div><div>... Desistance has been explained as a self-reported complete termination of criminal behavior, an ending of official citations for criminal behavior, a gradual slowing down of criminal behavior, a marked decrease in the frequency, intensity, and seriousness of criminal behavior, and/or the lack of reoffending ( Farrall et al. 2014;Ward and Laws 2010). Although at one time desistance was thought to result from individual choice or decisions made at one point in time (Clarke and Cornish 1985;Paternoster and Bushway 2009), more recently, the definition of desistance asserts that it is a process complete with lapses, relapses, and recoveries much like that found among drug addicts (Marlatt and Gordon 1985). In criminology, we find this argument reflected in Maruna's (2001) and Laub and Sampson (2003) work. ...</div><div>Reference: The difference between desistance from sexual offending and not reoffending</div><div>Modeling offenders' decisions : a framework for research and policy / Ronald V. Clarke, Derek B. Cornish</div><div>Citing article</div><div>Invalid date</div><div>Ronald V. ClarkeDerek B. Cornish</div><div>View</div><div>... Despite the importance of the problem of burl poaching, and the need to take preventive action to avoid further victimization, there has not been any systematic research on this issue until very recently (Kurland, Pires, and Marteache 2018). While the Kurland, Pires, and Marteache (2018) study focused on a macro-level spatial analysis of where burl poaching incidents occurred, this paper uses the concept of choice structuring properties (Cornish and Clarke 1987) to understand more in depth how offenders commit these crimes, and what factors influence their decision-making process at the micro-level. The ultimate goal of this study is to propose interventions directed to prevent this crime. ...</div><div>Reference: Choice Structuring Properties of Natural Resource Theft: An Examination of Redwood Burl Poaching</div><div>Understanding crime displacement : an application of rational choice theory / Derek B. Cornish, Ronald V. Clarke</div><div>Citing article</div><div>Invalid date</div><div>Derek B. CornishRonald V. Clarke</div><div>View</div><div>Top co-authors (6)</div><div>View all</div><div>Ronald V. Clarke</div><div>David P. Farrington</div><div>Lloyd E. Ohlin</div><div>James Q. Wilson</div><div>Thomas Gabor</div><div>R. W. England</div><div>Top journals</div><div>Contemporary Sociology (1)</div><div>Crime and Justice (1)</div><div>Criminology (1)</div><div>Affiliations</div><div>The London School of Economics and Political Science</div><div>Department</div><div>Department of Economics</div><div>University of London</div>