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Lecture 17 Phenomenological Criminology: The Criminal Experience- Rational choice and phenomenology are both micro level theory: explain the thoughts and experiences- Deciding and committing an act- Rational choice: present, physical situation- Phenomenology: a person has an experience- Rational choice is about assessing the cost – greatest benefits at the least cost. Chooses in terms of benefits and costs- Phenomenology explores a person’s experiences: feelings. Things cannot be calculated. No thought involved here. Those experiences drive a person to criminology.- Rational choice VS. Phenomenologyo Both approaches focus on the immediate circumstances surrounding the commission of crimes and emphasize the situational ad sequential nature of offender decision makingo Rational choice theory views criminal decision making as deliberate and calculating. Involving at least a rudimentary weighing of the available options at various points throughout the course of offenses in and attempt to determine the “optimal action” at critical moments in time. As such, it stresses the objective factors that shape offenders’ decision during the commission of their crimeso Phenomenological interactionism sees crimes as emerging almost naturally from the flow of events, often occurring without substantial planning or deliberation beforehand. Accordingly, it emphasizes the subjective factors that impel individuals forward offending.o By combining these two analytical approaches, we sought to examine not only the hard, verifiable contingencies that influenced the way in which offenders carried out their burglaries, but also the impact of mood, intuition, beliefs, etc.- Jack Katz (1988). Seductions of Crime: Moral and Sensual Attractions in Doing Evil- There are a lot of crimes cannot be explained by the background. There are certainthings about crime which make it attractive. They draw the person forward into the criminal act- Foreground of crime. Live experience in committing a crime.- What it feels like to commit a criminal act?o A person who is committing crime generates an experience, and the experience is the criminology all about.- Righteous slaughter - three experiences – they all related to one anothero Humiliation Holistic: a wet feeling Personal precede A casual regulation settingo Righteousness Evocation of individual humiliation Transcending quality The good has been insulted and the good must be defendedo Rage Both humiliation and rage are embedded Rage is a relational emotion Rage is blind. It cannot see anything besides the present actions Eternal present. The present moment is eternal and unchangedo All three of these experiences are eternal- Instrumental act is a practical act- A lot of passion killing start with cursing- Cursing: the person is marked at polluting of something goodo “Cursing sets up violence to be a sacrifice to honor the attacker as a priest representing the collective moral being” (Katz)- The Sneaky Thrill or Shopliftingo The sneaky thrill is created when a person Tacitly generates the experience of being seduced to deviance Reconquers her emotions in a concentration dedicated to the production of normal appearances Then appreciates the reverberating significance of her accomplishment in a euphoric thrillo The ease of taking the object which gives the object its appeal- Burglary: the experience of spaceo Non-instrumental act: trying to get a certain kind of


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