Criminal Behaviour Model

There are many ways to define crime or criminal behaviour ‘Crime is some action or omission that causes harm in a situation that the person or group responsible ‘ought’ to be held accountable and punished, irrespective of what the law books of a State say’ (Hale et al. n.d)

And criminal behaviour …

There are many explanation and understanding of what crime and criminal behaviour is although some theorists argue with these definitions of crime and criminal behaviour. The different theorist’s perspectives will be addressed through four models of crime and criminal behaviour; the rational actor model, (Classical school of criminology and criminal justice perspectives (Burke, 2012, pg.29), predestined actor model from a positive standpoint which

The decision to do so is based on the effort and reward rather than the likelihood of severe punishment and other costs of crime (Burke, 2012, pg.32). Thus, the career decision is the outcome of the involvement of the criminal behaviour; it is a way of making a living by choice using many ranges of options in order to do this. This perspective argues that there is no need for using other ways of explaining crime and criminal behaviour such as the predestined model which includes biological, psychological and sociological positivists view to explain crime and criminal behaviour. (Burke, 2012, pg.32)

Clarke and Cornish state that ‘the outcome of the offenders choices or decisions, however hasty or ill-considered these might be’ (Burke, 2012).

This view on crime suggests that the offenders will not always obtain all the facts needed for an ultimate decision and using the knowledge and personal reasoning (Burke, 2012) they do have the capacity to decide. Crime is simply a rational action performed by fairly ordinary people in response to particular pressure, opportunities and situational inducements (Burke, 2012, pg.33). However, Clarke (1987).

Routine activities theories propose that the crime takes place when there are a number of motivated persons present (Burke, 2012, pg.33). A target or victim became available and an absence of capable invariably informal, guardians, to deter the