come as no surprise, then, to learn
that the offenders usually preferred to
ignore the possible risk and
concentrate instead on the anticipated
reward: “The way I think about [the
threat of being apprehended] is this: I
would rather take a chance on getting
caught and getting locked up than
running around out here broke and not
taking a chance on even trying to get
no money.”
David Kennedy’s discussion of criminal
motivations appears in his book
Deterrence and Crime Prevention
(Routledge, 2008). Anthony Doob and
Cheryl Webster’s analysis of punishment