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Centre for Analytic Criminology

 

Members of the Centre for Analytic Criminology and Affiliated Researchers maintain a regular presence at the American Society of Criminology’s Annual Meetings. Below are papers and panels they have organized and taken part in and which have presented myriad tests of Situational Action Theory across a variety of international contexts.

 

Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology 2022, Atlanta, GA

Roman, G. D. (2022) Explaining the ‘Parenting – Callous-Unemotional Traits – Antisocial Behavior’ Axis In Early Adolescence: The Role of Affiliative Reward

Boers, K., Wikström, P-O H. & Kaiser, F. (2022) The impact of formal control interventions in England and Germany

Kaiser, F. (2022) Does contact with the justice system influence situational action theory’s causes of crime?

 

Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology 2021, Chicago, IL

TOWARDS A DYNAMIC DEVELOPMENTAL AND LIFE-COURSE CRIMINOLOGY: KEY PRINCIPLES AND EMPIRICAL EXAMPLES (Cancelled)

Wikström, P-O H. (2021) Towards a dynamic developmental and life-course-criminology: An ecological-action theoretical framework

Treiber, K. (2021) Linking stability and change in patterns of crime, propensity, and criminogenic exposure from adolescence into young adulthood

Roman, G. D. (2021) “Matched trajectories”: Analysing pathways in crime through the lens of the DEA model

Hardie, B. (2021) Chair

 

FORMAL CONTROL INTERVENTIONS: ITS IMPACT ON ADOLESCENT LIFE COURSE IN ENGLAND, GERMANY, AND THE UNITED STATES

Boers, K., Wikström, P-O H. & Kaiser, F. (2021) The impact of formal control interventions in England and Germany

Kaiser, F. (2021) Does contact with the justice system influence situational action theory’s causes of crime?

Tinney, E. (2021) Investigating stickiness of stigma following a friend’s arrest

Boers, K. & Wikström, P-O H. (2021) Chairs

Bernburg, J. & Loughran, T. A. (2021) Discussants

 

Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology 2020 (Cancelled)

THE DEA MODEL OF SITUATIONAL ACTION THEORY. THE ROLE OF PROPENSITY AND EXPOSURE IN CRIMINAL CAREERS

Wikström, P-O H. (2020) The DEA model of Situational Action Theory

Roman, G. D. (2020) Does crime propensity become a more important factor by age?

Treiber, K. (2020) Is the content of criminogenic exposure age-related?

Boers, K. (2020) Discussant

 

CRIME IN THE SCHOOL CONTEXT: PERSONAL AND PEERS’ PROPENSITIES

Kuptsevych, A., Antonaccio, O., Botchkovar, E., Hughes, L. (2020) Individual Criminal Propensity and Contemporary Adolescent Crime: The Role of School Context

Kafafian, M., Botchkovar, E. V., Marshall, I. H. (2020) Morality, Self-Control, and School Context: Additional Evidence on Situational Action Theory from 28 Countries

Kennedy, L. (2020) Peer influence and aggression in schools

 

TESTING COMPETING THEORIES OF CRIME AND VICTIMIZATION: THE ROLE OF PEOPLE AND PLACES

Eidson, J., Taylor, R. B., Groff, E. R. & Wood, J. (2020) Street Robbery Concentrations: A Strong Inference Agent-Based Simulation Test of Situational Action Theory and Environmental Criminology

Nilsson, E-L, Ivert, A-K & Torstensson Levander, M. (2020) Patterns of victimisation and criminogenic exposure among young people

Antonaccio, O., Kuptsevych, A, Botchkovar, E., Hughes, L., & Johnson, R. (2020) Situational Action Theory and Emotions: Extending the Theory Using Data from Ukraine

Svalin, K., Ivert, A-K, Mellgren, C. & Torstensson Levander, M. (2020) The significance of morality in relation to intimate partner violence

 

Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology 2019, San Francisco, CA

TESTING SITUATIONAL ACTION THEORY I: INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS AND THE PERCEPTION CHOICE PROCESS

Ivert, A-K., Torstensson Levander, M., Wikström, P-O, H. (2019) Explaining Within and Between Gender Differences in Crime Involvement. A Question of Morality and Life-Styles?

Chrysoulakis, A. (2019) The Situational Action Theory’s ‘Perception-Choice Process’: A Bayesian Application On Randomized Vignettes

Pajevic, M. (2019) Exploring the Link Between Low Heart Rate and Criminal Behaviour from an Analytical Perspective

Treiber, K. (2019) Bad habits: Unconscious processes and criminal decision making

Torstensson Levander, M. (2019) Chair

 

TESTING SITUATIONAL ACTION THEORY II: ROLE OF THE SOCIAL CONTEXT

McSharry, L. (2019) Disentangling school climate: Explaining problem and criminal behaviour in schools through the analytical lens of Situational Action Theory

Kuptsevych-Timmer, A. (2019) A Multi-Level Analysis of Adolescent Crime: Testing and Extending Situational Action Theory

Xun, X. (2019) What is behind the low crime rate in Asian countries: A study of Chinese adolescents

Cole, S. (2019) The Dynamics of Collective Efficacy in Action: Does Ambient Collective Efficacy Within a Setting Influence Individual Willingness to Intervene?

Treiber, K. (2019) Chair

 

THEORIES OF COMMUNITIES, PLACE AND CRIME: RIVALS OR COMPLEMENTARY

Sampson, R. J., Taylor, R. B., Weisburd, D., Wikström, P-O H., Wilcox, P. (2019) Discussants

 

Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology 2017, Philadelphia, PA

PATHWAYS IN CRIMES OF VIOLENCE AND THEIR DRIVERS

Wikström, P-O H. (2017) Explaining Pathways in Violence - the DEA model

Roman, G. D., Wikström, P-O H., Treiber, K. (2017) Pathways of violence and their drivers ages 13 to 24

Reinecke, J. (2017) The development and the desistance of crime and violence: The impact of delinquent peers and delinquent norms

Gottfredson, M. (2017) Chair

Taylor, R. B. (2017) Discussant

 

Treiber, K., Roman, G. D., Wikström, P-O H. (2017) Situational and developmental dynamics of females’ crime involvement

 

Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology 2016, New Orleans, LA

EXPLORING AND EXPLAINING PATHWAYS IN CRIME

Wikström, P-O. H., Treiber, K. & Roman, G. D. (2016) Exploring and explaingin pathways in crime (crime trajectories)

Treiber, K., Roman, G. D. & Wikström, P-O. H. (2016) Do initial levels and changes in young people’s crime propensities and criminogenic exposure explain young people’s pathways in crime (crime trajectories)?

Roman, G. D., Wikström, P-O. H. & Treiber, K. (2016) What are the drivers of young people’s crime propensities and criminogenic exposure?

Loesel, F. (2016) Chair

Loeber, R. (2016) Discussant

 

SOCIAL CONTEXTS AND DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION OF CRIME PROPENSITIES IN RELATION TO GENDER, ADJUDICATION, PROBLEMATIC SUBSTANCE USE, AND POLITICAL EXTREMISM

Ivert, A-K, Torstensson Levander, M., Wikström, P-O H. (2016) Gender differences in young people’s crime involvement - A cross-national comparison of UK and Sweden

Parent, G., Guay, J-P, Pineau-Villeneuve, C. (2016) Criminogenic contexts of young offenders: With whom, when and where

Gustafsson, N-K (2016) Problematic alcohol use seen through the lens of a situational action perspective: patterns of change in substance use propensity and substancegenic exposure

Perry, G. (2016) From political extremism to violence: A SAT analysis of right-wing extremism

 

Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology 2015, Washington, DC

CHANGES IN PEOPLE AND PLACES: THE INTERACTIVE NATURE OF DEVELOPMENT AND PATTERNS OF CRIMINAL BEHAVIOUR AND SUBSTANCE USE

Treiber, K., Wikström, P-O H. & Roman, G. D. (2015) Situational vs. developmental processes: Which came first, the ‘attitude’ or the behaviour?

Roman, G. D., Wikström, P-O. H., & Treiber, K. (2015) Dynamics of Change: Crime, Propensity and Exposure

Gustafsson, N-K (2015) Stability and change in young people's alcohol use: Interactions between people and places

Horney, J. (2015) Chair

Burt, C. (2015) Discussant

 

PEOPLE AND PLACE ORIENTED APPROACHES IN THE SUTYD OF CRIME: BRIDGING THE GAP

Wikström, P-O H., Mann, R., Hardie, B. (2015) Young People’s Differential Vulnerability to Criminogenic Exposure

Sampson, R. J. (2015) PHDCN Revisited: People and Place in Long-Term Perspective

Gottfredson, M. R. (2015) Immigration, Crime and Sociological Positivism in the US: Lessons for People, Place and Crime Relationships

Loesel, F. (2015) Chair

Weisburd, D. (2015) Discussant

 

Taylor. R. B. (2015) Author Meets Critics: Community Criminology with Critics P. Wilcox, P-O H. Wikström & D. Weisburd

 

2014 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, CA

EXPLORING AND EXPLAINING THE RELATINOSHIP BETWEEN DISADVANTAGE AND A CRIME

Agnew, R. S. (2014) Economic Disadvantage and Crime: A General Strain Theory Perspective

Gottfredson, M. R. (2014) Disadvantage and Crime: A View from Control Theory

Wikström, P-O H. & Treiber, K. (2014) The Disadvantage - Crime Link. A Key Criminological Puzzle as Explained by Situational Action Theory

Tittle, C. (2014) Discussant

 

2013 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, GA.

BEYOND NEIGHBOURHOOD EFFECTS: ADVANCES IN THE STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON CRIME EVENTS

Wikström, P-O H., Treiber, K. & Hardie, B. (2013) Exploring the Dynamics of Crime: Space-Time Budget Methodology

Browning, C. R., Rush, J. & Boettner, B. (2013) Using GPS and Ecological Momentary Assessment to Collect Space-Time Data on Criminogenic Settings: An Activity Location-Centered Approach

Wiebe, D., Richmond, T. S., Guo, W. & Branas, C. C. (2013) Space-Time Case-Control Study of Violence in Urban Landscapes

Taylor, R. (2013) Chair

Weisburd, D. (2013) Discussant

 

Treiber, K. (2013) A Neuropsychological Test of Criminal Decision-Making: Regional Prefrontal Influences in a Dual Process Model

 

2012 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, IL

VIOLENCE AS SITUATIONAL ACTION

Hardie, B. & Wikström, P-O H. (2012) Explaining Violent Hotspots: The Question of Selection

Treiber, K. & Wikström, P-O H. (2012) Explaining Violent Events: Situational Factors and Mechanisms

Trivedi, N. & Wikström, P-O H. (2012) The Role of Provocation in Violence: Interviewing the Violent Offender

Horney, J. (2012) Chair

McGloin, J. (2012) Discussant

 

Wikström, P-O H., Oberwittler, D., Treiber, K. & Hardie, B. (2012) Author Meets Critics: Breaking Rules: The Social and Situational Dynamics of Young People's Urban Crime with Critics P. Brantingham, C. R. Browning, M. R. Gottfredson & S. Messner

Wikström, P-O H. (2012) Social and Situational Dynamics of Control

Horgan, J. (2012) Religion, Peers, and Crime: Exploring Peer Religiosity and its Role in the Relationship between Religion, Morality, and Crime

Oberwittler, D. & Gerstner, D. (2012) Interactions Between Morality and Situational Factors in the Genesis of Adolescent Crime- and How (Not) to Find Them in Regression Analysis

Agnew. R. (2012) Author Meets Critics: Towards a Unified Criminology: Integrating Assumptions about Crime, People, and Society with Critics R. B. Felson, D. L. Rothe & P-O H. Wikström

 

 

For conference papers given before 2012 please go to PADS website