ABSTRACT
James Q. Wilson was – as we noted in Chapter 3 – a major influence on the development of the ‘right realist’ perspective on crime and criminal behaviour that was so influential in the rehabilitation of the rational actor model after many years in the explanatory wilderness. It was his work with Richard Herrnstein (Wilson and Herrnstein, 1985) that offers a more definitive account of what they consider to be the underlying causes of crime.
