benchmark – high profile crime

Choose a high profile case, your choice must be approved by your instructor. In 750-1,000 words, examine the following:

1. Summarize the high profile case you have chosen.
2. Describe how rational choice or trait theory apply to the case; if both apply, explain how they apply, and if neither applies explain why.
3. Explain how rational choice or trait theory can be used to explain why the people committed the crime.
4. Describe how rational choice and trait theorists would view this specific case.
5. Explain significant studies used by the theorists and how the studies might apply to understanding the case.

Use three to four scholarly resources to support your explanations.

I am choosing Jeffrey dahmer as my high profile case