The distance of a point from y-axis measured along the x-axis is called abscissa or x coordinate of the point and the distance of a point from x-axis measured along the y-axis is called ordinate.
In addition, neuropsychological... Rational choice theory and its assumptions about human behavior have been integrated into numerous criminological theories and criminal justice interventions. Rational choice theory originated during the late 18th century with the work of Cesare Beccaria.
on a theory of rational action is the most rapidly developing of so-. cial theory and research.'4 Rational choice may be on the verge of. becoming for the 1980s and 1990s what neo-Marxist perspectives. were in the 1970s, as it spreads to virtually all social science disci-. plines and law.