Which of the following circumstances would prompt and offender to decide to forgo crime?.

The offender would stand a good chance of being caught or punished.

Explanation:

The theory of rational action was also called the theory of rational choice can explain the reason, which assumes that an individual has preferences among the options available that allow them to state which choice they make. It is presumed that these preferences are done (the individual can always say which of two options they find acceptable or that none is preferred to the other) and transitive (If option A is preferred to option B and option B is preferred to option C, instead option A is preferred to option C).

Here the circumstances of being caught or punished would be preferred by prompt and offender to decide forgo the crime as they have assumed to take into account available information, event chances, cost of potential and advantages in finding out the preferences, and to behave consistently in selecting the best choice of action self-determined.