ABSTRACT
Theory of Reasoned Action (TORA) is intended both to explain and to predict human behaviors by means of a small number of concepts—beliefs, attitudes, and intentions—located within a single theoretical framework. TORA can deal easily with the variables held by situation and opportunity theorists to affect the incidence of crime. From the point of view of TORA, process-tracing techniques are essentially tools for identifying salient beliefs about particular actions. The theory is seen as applicable to all criminal decision making, whether related to events or involvement, whatever the time-scale, whatever the level of generality or specificity under consideration, and whatever the forms of information processing involved. Human beings like things to be simple, and never more so than when discussing crime. General deterrence, or the ability of the system to deter the public at large from crime, looked in equally bad shape.
