How Exceptional Is India? A Test of Situational Action Theory

Kokkalera, Stuti S.; Marshall, Ineke Haen; Marshall, Chris

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“…The theory's principal argument focuses on the interaction of individual and environmental characteristics. Setting criminogeneity is hypothesized to be most consequential for people of high crime propensitya proposition that has received non-negligible empirical support (Gerstner & Oberwittler, 2018;Hirtenlehner & Treiber, 2017;Kokkalera et al, 2020;Pauwels et al, 2018;Wikstr€ om et al, 2012Wikstr€ om et al, , 2018; see also Wright et al, 2001). That the two components of criminal propensity are assumed to have interdependent effects on crime involvement has been detailed above.…”

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Do Morality and Self-Control Protect from Criminogenic Peer Influence? Testing Multidimensional Person–Environment Interactions

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The present study examines whether the effect of involvement with delinquent friends on young people's criminal activity is contingent on adolescents' personal morality and their capacity for self-control and how these enduring properties work together in determining youths' vulnerability to peer influence. The corresponding personenvironment interactions are tested based on a longitudinal student survey from Austria. Findings reveal conditional peer effects. The significance of crime-prone friends decreases as morality gets stronger and self-control gets higher. Thereby, self-control seems to modify criminogenic peer effects particularly among youths of weak morality. We find evidence of a three-way interaction according to which high trait self-control protects against detrimental peer influence primarily among individuals who have poorly internalized law-consistent moral rules. Such an interplay is consistent with theoretical reflections regarding a moral filtering of action alternatives and a subsidiary relevance of self-control.

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Do Morality and Self-Control Protect from Criminogenic Peer Influence? Testing Multidimensional Person–Environment Interactions

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“…For example, Messner (2015) challenges the application of certain Western-developed theories such as situational action theory in East Asian society. He argues that the central theoretical constructs of situational cognition and moral reasoning may operate in fundamentally different ways across cultures, and calls for more systematic assessment about how these processes operate in East Asian societies (see also Kokkalera et al, 2020;Liu et al, 2020;Song & Lee, 2019). As Gary LaFree ( 2007) noted in his ASC presidential address in 2006, it would be hard to find criminologists who disagree that international research is important for understanding crime and justice.…”

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Exploring the Availability and Potential of International Data for Criminological Study

Nivette

2021

Int Criminol

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Despite advances in recent decades to internationalize criminology, one major roadblock that is often mentioned is the difficulty in collecting and obtaining high-quality international and cross-cultural data. More than ever, there is a growing amount of international data covering a wide variety of topics relevant to understanding crime. Visible and accessible international data can open up channels for dialogue and collaboration between cultures and regions, as well as opportunities to test, refine, and develop theoretical and empirical knowledge. This paper therefore aims to make the ‘world of data’ out there more visible not only to shed light on the potential for international research and collaboration, but to highlight the growing, rich body of international knowledge that already exists.

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“…(Aloysius et al, 2019;Antonaccio, Botchkovar, & Hughes, 2017;Barton-Crosby & Hirtenlehner, 2021;Brauer & Tittle, 2017;Choi & Yun, 2021;Cochran, 2016;Craig, 2019;Doelman, Marshall, & Enzmann, 2021;Eifler, 2016;Ernst & Gerth, 2021;Gerstner & Oberwittler, 2018;Gerth, 2020;Hardie, 2021b;Hirtenlehner, 2019Hirtenlehner, , 2020Hirtenlehner, Bacher, Leitgöb, & Schartmueller, 2021;Hirtenlehner & Hardie, 2016;Hirtenlehner & Kunz, 2016;Hirtenlehner & Meško, 2019;Hirtenlehner & Treiber, 2017;Ishoy & Sims Blackwell, 2019;Ivert et al, 2018;Jordanoska, 2018;Kafafian, Botchkovar, & Marshall Haen, 2021;Kammigan et al, 2019;Kessler & Reinecke, 2021;Kleinewiese, 2021;Kokkalera, Haen Marshall, & Marshall, 2020;Kokkalera, Marshall, & Marshall, 2021;Lee, Hyojong, & Park, 2021;Li et al, 2021;Liu et al, 2020;McClanahan & van der Linden, 2021;Noppe, 2018;Pauwels, 2018b Pauwels, , 2018aPauwels, , 2019Pauwels & Hardyns, 2016;…”

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Situational sources of rule-breaking acts : an analytic criminology approach

Chrysoulakis¹

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Criminology has long been divided by mainly focusing on people’s propensities to commit crimes, on the one hand, and environmental characteristics conducive to crime, on the other. Such a division must be bridged to advance knowledge about why some people, but not others, commit rule-breaking acts in some environments but not in others. Furthermore, explanations require causal mechanisms explaining how the outcome, a rule-breaking act, is produced. Analytic Criminology offers a general framework for how to theoretically and empirically structure the study of crime. It does so by connecting macro- and micro-levels – structuring the convergence of certain people in certain places – through a mechanistic account. Within this framework, the situational action theory (SAT) proposes a causal mechanism explaining how said convergence triggers the perception-choice process: a rule-breaking act must first be perceived to be subsequently chosen. The main drivers during this process are the person’s crime propensity and the criminogeneity of the behaviour setting. Identifying the central components also enables the theorising of changes in crime involvement, which is the subject of the developmental ecological action (DEA) model of SAT. Drawing on data from the longitudinal project Malmö Individual and Neighbourhood Development Study, this thesis aimed to test SAT and its DEA model, thus bridging said division. It did so through four studies with specific reference to adolescents’ crime propensity, exposure to criminogenic settings, their convergence, and finally, change over time. Study I and study II investigated adolescents’ time use and connections to rule-breaking. The former examined how adolescents spend time in unsupervised and unstructured socialising with peers, during which hours of the day, in which neighbourhoods, and what level of collective efficacy the neighbourhoods have. Study II focused on adolescents’ routine activities and how they differentially place adolescents in unstructured socialising. Furthermore, it tested whether adolescents with higher crime propensity run a higher probability of reporting a rule-breaking act during unstructured socialising irrespective of their routine activities. Study III extended the situational analysis by investigating how adolescents form rule-breaking intentions in randomised scenarios depending on their morality, self-control, and the setting characteristics (varying in level of motivation and deterrence). Study IV applied a developmental perspective to key theoretical constructs derived from the DEA model, focusing on how morality, peer delinquency, and unstructured socialising change, and how the change in each is related to change in the others. Together, the studies found that adolescents with different levels of crime propensity are differently exposed to criminogenic settings but that such exposure simultaneously increases the probability of rule-breaking more for adolescents with higher crime propensity. In sum, the studies have bridged the person–place division in different ways by being rooted in a mechanistic account of rule-breaking, which is proposed as a way forward for criminology as a discipline.

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How Exceptional Is India? A Test of Situational Action Theory

Cited by 9 publications

References 55 publications

Do Morality and Self-Control Protect from Criminogenic Peer Influence? Testing Multidimensional Person–Environment Interactions

Do Morality and Self-Control Protect from Criminogenic Peer Influence? Testing Multidimensional Person–Environment Interactions

Exploring the Availability and Potential of International Data for Criminological Study

Situational sources of rule-breaking acts : an analytic criminology approach

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