Testing Analytical Theories

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Date/time:

8 July to 9 July 2019

Location:

University of Cologne, Germany

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Professor Wikstrom and Dr Treiber will take part the 8-9 July 2019 in a workshop organised by Professor Kroneberg and colleagues on Testing Analytical Theories in criminology and related fields at the University of Cologne, Germany.

 

Monday, 8 July

14:00-14:10

 

Clemens Kroneberg: Welcome and summary of the project "Friendship and violence in adolescence"

 

Session 1: Offender Decision-Making and Social Context

 

 

14:10-14:50

 

Clemens Kroneberg:

Who is fighting with whom? How ethnic origin shapes friendship, dislike, and physical violence relations in German secondary schools

14:50-15:30

 

André Ernst:

Focusing on setting’s criminogeneity in SAT. The example of inner-school violence.

15:30-16:10

 

Stefanie Eifler/Heinz Leitgöb/Julia Weymeirsch:

The role of neutralization in deliberate criminal decision-making.

16:10-16:30

 

Coffee break (20 min)

 

 

Session 2: The Developmental Ecological Action (DEA) Model of Situational Action Theory

 

 

16:30-17:10

 

Per-Olof H. Wikström:

Explaining crime and criminal careers. The DEA model of Situational Action Theory.

17:10-17:50

 

Kyle Treiber:

Does propensity make the thief? Exploring the relative contribution of propensity and exposure to crime involvement over time.

19:00

 

Workshop dinner

 

 

Tuesday, 9 July

 

 

Session 3: Understanding Contexts and Correlates of Offending

 

 

09:00-09:40

 

Dietrich Oberwittler:

Social segregation and the social contexts of youth crime in German and French neighborhoods

09:40-10:20

 

Maria Gerth:

Testing SAT’s potential for a more general and mechanism-based explanation of the truancy-delinquency relationship

10:20-10:40

 

Coffee break (20 min)

 

 

Session 4: One Analytical Criminology but Different Theories of Action?

 

 

10:40-11:20

 

Helmut Hirtenlehner:

The interaction between self-control and perceived sanction risk from the viewpoint of different theories.

11:20-12:00

 

Daniel Seddig:

Human values and planned behavior: a synthesized approach to explain drug use and theft

12:00-13:00

 

Lunch break

 

 

Session 5: Towards Experimental Tests of Situational Action Theory

 

 

13:00-13:40

 

Guido Mehlkop/Sebastian Sattler:

The interplay of moral norms, instrumental incentives, and self-control in causing illegal behavior

13:40-14:20

 

Fabian Hasselhorn:

An experimental test of SAT