Crime as Alternative: Towards a Cross-Level Situational Action Theory of Crime Causation

Wikström, Per‐Olof H.

doi:10.4324/9781351322560-1

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“…Human beings make choices to participate in crime or not, and theories of the life course have been 20 remiss to have left agency-which is essentially human social action-largely out of the theoretical picture. Our effort can be seen as one to reposition human agency as a central element in understanding crime and deviance over the life course (Laub and Sampson, 2003: Chapters 6-8; see also Wikström, 2004). To be sure, Shared Beginnings is not a complete response, for we did not develop an explicit theory of human agency replete with testable causal hypotheses.…”

Section: Theoretical Lesson 4: the Importance Of Agency And Choicementioning

confidence: 99%

A General Age-Graded Theory of Crime: Lessons Learned and the Future of Life-Course Criminology

Sampson¹,

Laub²

2017

Integrated Developmental and Life-Course Theories of Offending

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Section: Theoretical Lesson 4: the Importance Of Agency And Choicementioning

confidence: 99%

A General Age-Graded Theory of Crime: Lessons Learned and the Future of Life-Course Criminology

Sampson¹,

Laub²

2017

Integrated Developmental and Life-Course Theories of Offending

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“…The first of these is informed by Wikström's (2004) micro-level analysis of the individual choice process. At the micro level of analysis, the cases selected reflect how different individual characteristics and moral habits affect peoples' behaviour (Wikström, 2013).…”

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“…Researchers have dedicated a great deal of effort to try and answer this question. The answer for some lies with structural theories of motivation (Albrecht et al, 2014;Coleman, 1987;Cooper et al, 2013;Davis & Pesch, 2013;Donegan & Gagon, 2008;Gabbioneta et al, 2013;Wikström, 2004Wikström, , 2010a. These scholars give importance to the context and environmental characteristics the individual is immersed in and how the various interactions within this system influence the individual's behaviour (Coleman, 1987).…”

Section: Individual Decision Making and The Choice To Offend In Accoumentioning

confidence: 99%

Theorizing Financial Crimes as Moral Actions

Lokanan

2017

European Accounting Review

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Abstract:The paper maintains that all acts of financial crimes can be explained within a general theory of moral action and analyzed as such. In this regard, the paper presents such a theorySituational Action Theory (SAT) -and argues that acts of financial crimes result from a perception-choice process involving rational deliberation and experimental habituation, themselves the outcomes of interactions between individuals and their environments. To examine this argument, the paper draws on two recent high profile fraud cases to critically discuss the extent to which these crimes should be meaningfully and innovatively analysed as moral actions and the moral context in which they occur. The findings indicate that the feature most relevant to a criminogenic is its moral context in relation to the opportunities and frictions that it generates. As such, environmental factors along with psychosocial processes of moral education become particularly important in the explanation of why certain moral contexts emerge in particular kinds of settings at a particular point in time. In this regard, SAT can be used as a powerful overarching framework to gain a more comprehensive understanding of peoples' choice processes to breach moral rules and devise effective crime prevention strategies to combat fraud.

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“…Specifically, STB data have been applied to test the Situational Action Theory. This theory explains offending as the result of an interaction between a person's crime propensity and criminogenic exposure (Wikström, 2004;Wikström, 2005;Wikström, 2014). Individuals' crime propensity depends on the individual´s morality and ability to exercise self-control.…”

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“…The method was developed by Wikström and colleagues and used in The Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study (PADS+), conducted in England (Wikström et al, 2010;Wikström et al, 2012a). The STB method is designed to test the Situational Action Theory (Wikström, 2004;Wikström, 2005;Wikström, 2014). The STB method is derived from regular time diary methods, but extended with the geographical location of the activities and with a set of end of day summary questions about offending and other delinquent activities or events (Wikström et al, 2012a).…”

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Measuring short and rare activities – Time diaries in criminology

Halem¹,

Hoeben²,

Bernasco³

et al. 2016

eIJTUR

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Motivated by recent time use studies in criminology, this study examined whether time diaries are suitable for measuring short and rare activities such as offending. The study compared time diary data collected among 843 adolescents from the conurbation of The Hague (the Netherlands) with stylized questionnaire data from the same respondents, and with stylized questionnaire data from another sample that is representative for Dutch adolescents (N = 1849). Based on the reported offenses in the diaries (N = 101), findings indicate that time diaries may underestimate population offense rates and may not capture offenses committed by low-frequent offenders. On the other hand, time diaries seem able to measure changes in individuals' involvement in offending over time and to capture most of the situational conditions under which offenses occur. The study concludes with suggestions for dealing with the problems associated with measuring short and rare activities. JEL-Codes:C00, C80, C83, K42

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Crime as Alternative: Towards a Cross-Level Situational Action Theory of Crime Causation

Cited by 122 publications

References 1 publication

A General Age-Graded Theory of Crime: Lessons Learned and the Future of Life-Course Criminology

A General Age-Graded Theory of Crime: Lessons Learned and the Future of Life-Course Criminology

Theorizing Financial Crimes as Moral Actions

Measuring short and rare activities – Time diaries in criminology

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