The Rational Choice & Justice Funnel

of Arrest (p) 0.30 Severity (S) 80 Social/Moral Cost (M) 10 Utility U(c): 0 Adjust the sliders to see how individual rational choices aggregate into the Criminal Justice pipeline. The Rational Choice & Justice Funnel lets you explore this hands-on instead of only reading about it.

Distinguishing between the theoretical study of crime and the practical application of legal systems. It focuses on Criminological Theory, Criminal Justice Systems, Policing and Law Enforcement, Corrections and Reentry, Systemic Reform from the “Criminology and Criminal Justice” section.

The “Gain (G) 50”, “Prob. of Arrest (p) 0.30”, “Severity (S) 80” sliders change the key inputs. Every change updates the visualization in real time, so you can see exactly how each variable affects the outcome.

The Bookshelves area in the LibreTexts Library serves as a centralized repository for curated academic texts across a wide array of social science and professional disciplines. Managed by the LibreTexts Development team… This demo is the interactive piece for the “Criminology and Criminal Justice” section. Open the full Overview of Social Science and Professional Disciplines course wiki at https://www.getlykke.com/explore/public/overview-of-social-science-and-professional-76e90f78-265a-4c20-a32c-7a65e795fc57 for notes, flashcards, quizzes and the other demos.

You'll build intuition for Criminological Theory, Criminal Justice Systems, Policing and Law Enforcement, Corrections and Reentry, Systemic Reform — and, crucially, see how they behave when you change the inputs, which is hard to get from a textbook or lecture on Overview of Social Science and Professional Disciplines alone.