- Rational choice and determinist theorists have very different ideas about what causes people to engage in criminal and deviant behaviors. Describe the main differences between the two. Rational choice theorists believe that people have thought about the consequences of the crime that they’re going to commit. many times it’s because the people about to commit the crime feel that they have nothing to lose if that consequence is put into action. while determinists believe that there could be another underlying cause for someone to make those choices like mental health. What is the goal of the pre-crime unit in Minority Report? They could see the future of crimes which helped them with figuring out crimes and the criminals who had or are going to commit the act. The goal of the pre-crime unit is to arrest people before they commit their crimes. Hoping to save their victims from being murdered. What assumption does the unit make concerning the cause of criminality? Consider how this might relate to deterministic theories of crime. I believe that the assumption that had gone into the unit is that all the crimes were done with a rational choice that the criminals had thought about it and ultimately chose to still commit the crimes even knowing the consequences. As I think about it the deterministic theory there could have been other factors that were causing them to commit those deviant acts like mental illness, and financial burdens, there could have been many biological factors that go into someone committing a violent act. Does ‘free will play any part in the behaviors and actions of the characters in the film? That’s a big question to answer it’s hard to tell in the movie because they’re testing the theory of free will and deterministic theory. In the movie, they’re trying to see if things in the future are set and there is no way of stopping it. It is the fact that people generally have free will when it comes to most things and this can cloud the consequences. In what ways can “pre-crime” prediction be useful/beneficial to society? In what ways can it be harmful? Use examples from the film to explain. The pre-crime prediction can be useful in the fact that I could be saving another life and ultimately stopping someone from committing a violent act. on the other hand, there are some harmful aspects of these predictions. what if there and they arrest the wrong person and there is still wrongdoing? there are mant flaws what about self control how do we know that these perdictions are really going to happen.
