{ "item_title" : "What Happens Between the First and Tenth Choice?", "item_author" : [" Khalil Khalil "], "item_description" : "What happens between the first choice and the tenth?At what point does a decision stop feeling like a decision?What Happens Between the First and Tenth Choice? explores one of the most difficult questions surrounding criminal behavior and recidivism: why do some people continue returning to behaviors that they already know can cost them their freedom, relationships, opportunities, and sometimes their lives?Drawing on neuroscience, psychology, behavioral science, addiction research, and research on desistance, Khalil examines what happens when repeated choices become learned patterns. The book looks at reward anticipation, immediate gratification, stress, trauma, reinforcement, habit formation, temporal discounting, and the brain's ability to learn from experience.But this is not a book arguing that criminal behavior is simply an addiction-or that understanding behavior means excusing it.It asks a different question: What if understanding how a behavior is learned can help us understand how it can be unlearned?The book follows the progression from the first choice to repeated behavior and eventually to a cycle that can become increasingly difficult to interrupt. It examines how immediate rewards can overpower distant consequences, how stressful environments can influence decision-making, and how repeated behavior can become more automatic over time.It also asks an equally important question: Why do some people stop?Research on desistance shows that people can change. Family, employment, sobriety, relationships, identity, maturity, community, and a new understanding of one's future can all become part of the process. The same human capacity to learn that can reinforce destructive behavior can also help create new patterns.What Happens Between the First and Tenth Choice? brings together two ideas that are too often treated as opposites: Accountability and understanding.One does not have to disappear for the other to exist.This book is ultimately about more than crime. It is about behavior, repetition, consequences, human decision-making, and the possibility of change.Because the question isn't only why someone made the first choice.The deeper question is: What happened between the first choice and the tenth-and what could happen after it?", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/816/152/9798161529591_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "20.00", "online_price" : "20.00", "our_price" : "20.00", "club_price" : "20.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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