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In this chapter, I discuss theoretical presuppositions for analyzing societal crime from the rationality perspective. Societal crime is defined as the total number of crimes committed by members of the society, or as the rate of these crimes. This definition is not self-evident. Other senses of the concept could be envisioned, such as the harm that these crimes cause to society. However, there are reasons to use the concept as defined here. One reason is that this definition is the one commonly used in the research. Another is that the transition from individual to societal crime is made clearer than if some other sense of the concept were used. As now defined, societal crime can be seen as a holistic property of an aggregate of choices.
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Dahlbäck, O. (2003). Societal Crime. In: Analyzing Rational Crime — Models and Methods. Theory and Decision Library, vol 36. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0721-3_13
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