ABSTRACT
Sixth, this right realist rediscovery and adaptation of the rational actor model, with its central proposition that criminal behaviour is simply a rational choice made by those brought up in a world bereft of correct moral values, has led to the targeting and demonisation of whole groups of people – such as New Age travellers, drug users and groups of young ‘marauding’ males – it is argued, by an intrusive and punitive ‘law and order’ state response with all these aforementioned categories of humanity deemed worthy of severe and vindictive punishment (see Hogg and Brown, 1998).
