European Society of Criminology Annual Conference

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

25th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Athens, Greece (2025)

MORALITY AND MORAL DECISION MAKING

Roman, G. (2025) Does Criminology have a need for the concept of 'Moral Character'? Evidence from two countries

Chrysoulakis, A., Kroneberg, C. & Roman, G. (2025) A comparative study of rule-breaking morality and crime involvement in England, Sweden and Germany, using approximate measurement invariance analyses

Uhl, A. & Hardie, B (2025) Revisiting bad apples and bad barrels: An experiment on person-setting interactions in corrupt decision making

Herrmann, C. (2025) Uncovering the mental mechanisms behind acts of rule breaking: A test of Situational Action Theory’s situational model using experimental video scenarios and process tracing techniques 

Yu, Y. (2025) Cheating in China and Germany: An experimental study of Situational Action Theory

EXPLORING MORAL DEVELOPMENT: EMPIRICAL AND INTERVENTION APPLICATIONS INFORMED BY SITUATIONAL ACTION THEORY IN SCHOOLS

Tu, K. (2025) Exploring moral education in Hong Kong: A test of Situational Action Theory’s Developmental Ecological Action Model

Hardie, B. & Trivedi-Bateman, N. (2025) Introducing the SATNAV programme of change: developing individual morality and moral contexts in schools

Trivedi-Bateman, N. & Hardie, B. (2025) Early impact indicators from several multi-school trials of the SATNAV: Compass programme of morality change to reduce youth antisocial behaviour and crime

Xun, X., Trivedi-Bateman, N. & Hardie, B. (2025) Adaptation and translation of SATNAV: Compass Moral Education Program for implementation in China

NOW WIDER AND DEEPER? REFLECTIONS ON THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF EUROPEAN CRIMINOLOGY

Roundtable: 

  • Chairs: Treiber, K.
  • Discussants: Hardie, B., Edwards, A. M., Hamilton, C. E., Di Ronco, A., Cliquennois, G., Hacin, R. & Nivette, A.

24th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Bucharest, Romania (2024)

CHARACTER, CIRCUMSTANCES, AND CRIMINAL CAREERS: TOWARDS A DYNAMIC DEVELOPMENTAL AND LIFE-COURSE CRIMINOLOGY

Author meets Critics:

  • Book Authors - Wikström, P-O H., Treiber, K. & Roman, G. 
  • Critics - Gottfredson, M., Enzmann, I. D. & Skardhamar, T. 

THEORETICAL EXPLANATIONS AND CRIMINAL POLICY IMPLICATIONS

Roundtable: 

  • Chairs: Aebi, M. F. &  Molnar, L.  
  • Discussants: Gottfredson, M., Nielsen, M. S., Treiber, K., Hacin, R., Meško, G., Cunha, O., Gonçalves, R. A., Caridade, S. M. M., Dunaiski, M. &  Yehuda, L. 

ACADEMIC PUBLISHING AND OPEN RESEARCH IN CRIMINOLOGY

Roundtable: 

  • Chair: Buil-Gil, D.
  • Discussants: Treiber, K., Savona, E., Gray, E., Gelsthorpe, L. & Ashby, M.

UNDERSTANDING CRIME THROUGH THE LENS OF SITUATIONAL ACTION THEORY: EMPIRICAL FINDINGS AND METHODOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS

Tu, K. (2024) Social Sources of Moral Education in Hong Kong: A Test of Situational Action Theory’s Developmental Ecological Action Model

Carlo, S. (2024) Shifting Morality: the Impact of Motivation on IPV Perpetration

Herrmann, C. (2024) Process Tracing the Criminal Decision-Making Process

Xun, X. (2024) A Measurement Invariance Assessment of Morality between China and the United Kingdom

Trivedi-Bateman, N. & Hardie, B. (2024) The SATNAV Project: a comprehensive school-based programme of change centred around individual morality and moral contexts

EVOLUTIONARY CRIMINOLOGY AND COOPERATION: RETRIBUTION, RECIPROCITY, AND CRIME (E. SVINGEN)

Author meets Critics:

  • Author: Svingen, E.
  • Critics: Treiber, K., Eisner, M. & Edgemon, T.

UNDERSTANDING PUNISHMENT PREFERENCES IN THE PUBLIC: NEW FINDINGS FROM THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN SOCIAL SURVEY

Ostaszewski, P., Woźniakowska, D. & Uhl, A. (2024) Punitiveness in six European countries

Fürstenberg, A. & Uhl, A. (2024) Religion, religiosity and harsh attitudes toward offenders

Marks, M., Uhl, A. & Ostaszewski, P. (2024) Punitive authoritarians? Challenging the dual-process model of punitiveness

Uhl, A. & Pickett, J. T. (2024) On the stability of individual punishment preferences: A longitudinal, cross-national study

23rd Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Florence, Italy (2023)

PUNITIVE ATTITUDES ACROSS TYPE OF CRIME AND STATE BOUNDARIES

Porębski, A., Ilczuk, E. & Uhl, A. (2023) Disparity in punitive attitudes towards stranger and partner rape: Analysis of representative survey findings from six European countries

HOW DOES CONTEXT MATTER? LINKING MACRO AND MICRO PROCESSES IN CRIMINOLOGICAL THEORY

Kroneberg, C., Ernst, A. & Sven, L. (2023) When does a provocation demand a violent response? A randomized scenario study of the Code of the Streets

Lanfear, C. C. & Matsueda, R. L. (2023) A Micro Theory of Crime Opportunities: Symbolic Interaction among Motivated Offenders, Suitable Targets, and Capable Guardians

Sampson, R. J. (2023) Changing Lives in Changing Times: A Cohort Context Theory of Crime and Punishment

Wikström, P-O H.(2023) Linking situational and developmental processes in the explanation of crime events and criminal careers.

WHITE-COLLAR OFFENDERS AFTER CRIMINAL JUSTICE INVOLVEMENT

Uhl, A. (2023) The role of capital in white-collar offenders’ reentry 

EXPLORING THE ROLE OF MECHANISMS IN THEORIES OF CRIME CAUSATION: ANALYTIC AND OTHER APPROACHES

Proctor, K. R. (2023) Constitutive causality and Situational Action Theory

Niemeyer, R. E. (2023) How advances in Situational Action Theory can improve cognitive security efforts

Bostrom, S. R. (2023) Formalizing Social Disorganization Theory: A reorganization of the Chicago School

Treiber, K. (2023) Situational Action Theory and the Analytic approach to developing and testing explanations of crime

APPLYING MORAL FRAMEWORKS TO THEORY AND PRACTICE

Carlo, S. (2023) The shifting morality of intimate partner violence: Applying Situational Action Theory

Tu, K. (2023) Social sources of moral education in Hong Kong: A test of Situational Action Theory's Developmental Ecological Action Model

Trivedi-Bateman, N. (2023) Challenges and strategies for delivering morality interventions in different youth contexts: The Compass Project intervention

22nd Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Malaga, Spain (2022)

CRIME AND MORALITY: THEORISING AND STUDYING THE ROLE OF MORALITY IN CRIME CAUSATION

Wikström, P-O H. (2022) Where does morality come from? The role of people’s everyday experiences and their crime propensities

Treiber, K. (2022) Where does crime relevant morality come from? The biological foundation

Roman, G. D. (2022) Morality and the perception of crime as an alternative: The role of the moral filter

UNDERSTANDING THE PERCEPTION-CHOICE PROCESS OF CRIMINAL ACTION

Weymeirsch, J. & Eifler, S. (2022) On the relevance of two-stage modeling of criminal behavior

Hasselhorn, F., Sattler, S., van Veen, F., Mehlkop, G., Sauer, C. (2022) An Experimental Test of Situational Action Theory of Crime Causation: Investigating the Perception-Choice Process

Betz, A. & Eifler, S. (2022) The relevance of norms for decisions on theft by finding

QUANTITATIVE ANALYSES ON THE SITUATIONAL ACTION THEORY

Hasselhorn, F., Sattler, S., Kroneberg, C. & Seddig, D. (2022) Self-Control Ability Scale

Ernst, A. (2022) Does criminogenic exposure really matter? Examining the situational model in Situational Action Theory

Kleineweise, J. (2022) Group morality affects crime: Empirical evidence from the perspective of Situational Action Theory

21st Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Online (2021)

INNOVATIVE APPLICATIONS OF SPACE-TIME BUDGET METHODOLOGY TO STUDYING THE INTERACTION BETWEEN PEOPLE AND PLACES IN THE EXPLANATION OF CRIME: PEERS AND GUARDIANS

Treiber, K., Wikström, P-O H. & Roman, G. D. (2021) Differences in social relationships and time use between young people following adolescence-limited and persistent trajectories of crime involvement

Kennedy, L. (2021) Peer Influence and Aggression: Adapting the Space-Time Budget Method

Cole, S. (2021) Studying situational perceptions of moral rules using the space-time budget: Findings from the Peterborough Neighbourhood Guardians Study (PNGS)

Hardie, B. (2021) Discussant

19th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Ghent, Belgium (2019)

EXPLORING AND EXPLAINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENDER AND CRIME: NEW FINDINGS FROM PADS+

Wikstrom, P-O H. (2019) Exploring the relationship between gender and crime: Basic differences in crime involvement and its drivers

Treiber, K. (2019) Explaining gender differences in crime: How well can gender differences in crime involvement be explained by the person-environment interaction?

Roman, G. D. (2019) Exploring gender differences in the drivers of crime: Developmental differences in males’ and females’ crime propensities and criminogenic exposure

THEORISING CRIME. THE ROLE OF PEOPLE AND PLACES

Gottfredson, M. R. (2019) People and Places in Criminological Theory: A General Theory of Crime Perspective

Wikström, P-O H. (2019) People and Places in Criminological Theory: A Situational Action Theory Perspective

Kroneberg, C. (2019) The role of People and Places in the General Theory of Crime and Situational Action Theory. A discussion.

18th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Sarajevo (2018)

ANALYZING THE PERCEPTION-CHOICE PROCESS IN SITUATIONAL ACTION THEORY

De Buck, A. & Pauwels, L. J. R. (2018) Choosing Violence, Scenario Criminogeneity, and Moral Emotions. a Randomized Scenario Study in Risk-Seekers and Risk-Avoiders

Pauwels, L. J. R., Schepers, D. & Eifler, S. (2018) Choosing What Crime as Alternative in What Criminogenic Setting? an In-Depth Examination of SAT’s Propensity Scenario Exposure in Three Different Data Sets

Kammigan, I. (2018) Response Latencies as Indicators for More Automatic Vs. More Deliberate Decision-Making

Gerth, M. (2018) Applying Sat to Explain Truancy

Schepers, D. (2018) Chair

DIVERSIFYING THE TESTS OF SITUATIONAL ACTION THEORY

Al-Ruwaili, N. (2018) Morality, Deterrence and Crime: A Test of SAT Among Adolescents in Saudi Arabia

Eifler, S. & Schepers, D. (2018) Settings, Situations, and Theft by Finding: Analyzing the Causes of the Causes in SAT  

Pauwels, L. J. R. (2018) Choosing to Shoplift as Alternative? Testing Major Propositions of Situational Action Theory’s Situational Model

Al-Ruwaili, N., Rodríguez, J. A. & Birkbeck, C. (2018) Testing Situational Action Theory Through Behavioural Intentions: Results From Saudi Arabia and Venezuela

Birkbeck, C. (2018) Chair

Kessler, G. & Reinecke, J. (2018) The Conditional Relevance of External and Internal Controls: Do Assumptions of the Situational Action Theory Hold Among in Young Adults?

16th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Münster, Germany (2016)

SELECTED ISSUES IN CRIME CAUSATION: SOCIAL DISADVANTAGE, GENDER AND LABELLING

Roman, G. D., Wikström, P-O H. & Treiber, K. (2016) Childhood social disadvantage and pathways in crime

Wikström, P-O H., Treiber, K. & Roman, G. D. (2016) Gender, crime and criminal careers

Treiber, K., Roman, G. D. &Wikström, P-O H. (2016) Does labelling matter? A critical discussion of key mechanisms and testable implications

PATHWAYS OF DELINQUENCY

Lösel, F., Stemmler, M. & Wallner, S. (2016) Pathways and Prediction of Externalizing Problems from Preschool to Adolescence: Results from the Erlangen-Nuremberg Development and Prevention Study

Wikström, P-O H., Treiber, K. & Roman, G. D. (2016) Pathways in Crime and their explanation

Boers, K., Seddig, D. & Reinecke, J. (2016) Early Decliners and Late Starters – Questioning the Early Onset-Assumption

Beier, H. & Kroneberg, C. (2016) The Co-Evolution and Interplay of Normative Attitudes, Peers, and Violence: Results from a New Panel Study

Kroneberg, C. (2016) Chair

PERCEPTION, CHOICE AND THE INTERPLAY OF PROPENSITIES AND EXPOSURE: NOVEL TESTS OF SITUATIONAL ACTION THEORY USING MULTIPLE METHODS

Pauwels, L. (2016) Seeing and choosing crime: A randomized scenario study of the causes and cause of the causes of the perception-choice process

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

Hirtenlehner, H. & Treiber, K. (2016) Can Situational Action Theory Explain the Gender Gap in Adolescent Shoplifting

Gustafsson, N-K. (2016) Problematic alcohol use and its situational causes: Can differences in substance use propensities and substancegenic exposure explain problematic alcohol use?

PERSONAL MORALITY AND MORAL CONTEXTS: CONCEPTS, MEASUREMENT AND CROSS-NATIONAL DIFFERENCES

Serrano-Maillo, A. (2016) The concept of morality and its measurement in situational action theory

Svensson, R. & Ivert, A-K (2016) Morality and crime: A cross-national comparison of Peterborough and Malmö

Ernst, A. (2016) The role of peers in Situational Action Theory: Do pupils of the same grade influence one another in their violent behavior in the school context?

Lämmermann, K. (2016) The interplay between adolescents’ own moral rules and those of their friends: How it influences their tendency to behave violently in the face of provocation

15th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Porto, Portugal (2015)

RECENT APPLICATIONS OF SITUATIONAL ACTION THEORY

Gustafsson, N-K (2015) Places and differences in young people’s vulnerability: substancegenic exposure and substance use propensity

Barton-Crosby, J. (2015) Applying situational action theory to the explanation and analysis of acts of intimate partner violence

Lau, M. P. Y. & Treiber, K. (2015) Tackling the unexpectedly small association between social disadvantage and crime: a meta-analysis

Pauwels, L. (2015) How general are the key mechanisms of sat? From child antisocial behaviour, adolescent offending and substance use to student participation in violent extremism. An overview of research evidence from Belgian studies

14th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology: Prague, Czech Republic (2014)

NEW TOPICS AND TESTS OF SITUATIONAL ACTION THEORY 1: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL DISADVANTAGE IN CRIME CAUSATION: SELECTION, SUPERVISION, AND SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR

Treiber, K. & Wikström, P-O H. (2014) Social disadvantage and crime: A criminological puzzle

Hardie, B. (2014) When monitoring matters: Parental knowledge, supervision and criminogenic exposure

Müller-Johnson, K. & Wikström, P-O H. (2014) Sexual attitudes and behaviours: Acceptability and experiences by gender and childhood disadvantage  

Hirtenlehner, H. (2014) Discussant

NEW TOPICS AND TESTS OF SITUATIONAL ACTION THEORY 2: CONTEXTS OF VIOLENCE: MORAL EMOTIONS AND EMPATHY, SENSITIVITY TO PROVOCATION, AND POLICE USE OF FORCE

Trivedi, N. (2014) ‘I ain’t gotta feel bad for him, he’s gotta feel bad for himself’: Lack of shame, guilt and empathy in persistent violent offenders

Barton-Crosby, J. (2014) Sensitivity to provocation and acts of violence: Conceptual and methodological issues

Jerath, K. (2014) Applying SAT to police use of force: Are certain officers in certain settings more prone to using violence?

KEY ISSUES IN CONTMPORARY CRIMINOLOGICAL THEORY

Wikström, P-O H. (2014) Situational action theory: Towards an analytical criminology

Enzmann, D. (2014) The importance of social contexts in criminological theorizing

Boers, K. (2014) Chair

MORALITY AND CRIME

Wikström, P-O H. (2014) Crime as moral action

Bottoms, A. (2014) Criminology and critical morality

Bennett, C. (2014) How can moral philosophy be relevant to criminology?

13th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Budapest, Hungary (2013)

TESTING SITUATIONAL ACTION THEORY CROSS-NATIONALLY

Wikström, P-O H., Treiber, K., Weerman, F., Bruinsma, G. & Torstensson-Levander, M. (2013) Core Elements of the Situational Action Theory: A Cross-National Comparison of the cities of Peterborough, The Hague and Malmö.

Treiber, K. & Svensson, R. (2013)Self-Control, Intoxication and Violence: A Cross-National Comparison of Peterborough and Malmö

Svensson, R., Torstensson-Levander, M. & Wikström, P-O H. (2013) Morality, Deterrence and Theft: A Cross-National Comparative Study

Hardie, B. & Ivert, A-K (2013)Parental Monitoring, Supervision, Activity Fields and Young People's Offending: A Cross-National Comparison Using Space-Time Budget Data

IT'S ALL ABOUT INTERACTIONS - TESTING INTERACTION HYPOTHESES IN SITUATIONAL ACTION THEORY

Wikstrom, P-O H. (2013) Introduction

Schepers, D. & Reinecke, J. (2013) Application of the situational action theory (SAT) for a new panel study on adolescents' deviant and delinquent behavior

Leitgöb, H., Hirtenlehner, H., Bacher, J. & Kastner, G. (2013) Developing a strategy for testing interaction assumptions in count data models - a contribution facilitating the empirical investigation of situational action theory?

Hirtenlehner, H., Leitgöb, H., Bacher, J. (2013) Are deterrent effects moderated by personal morality? The case of shoplifting

SITUATIONAL ACTION THEORY: EVIDENCE FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRIES

Hirtenlehner, H., Pauwels, L. & Mesko, G. (2013) Is the effect of perceived deterrence on juvenile offending contingent on the level of self-control? Results from three countries

Bertok, E. & Mesko, G. (2013) The influence of crime propensity on self-reported delinquency: results from Slovenia

Serrano-Maillo, A. (2013) On the concept and measurement of morality in Wikström's situational action theory: A comparison of measurement properties in two samples and controlling for measurement error following Saris et al.'s approach

Gerstner, D. & Oberwittler, D. (2013) The role of delinquent friends in the explanation of crime based on social network analysis

Wikström, P-O H. (2013) Discussant



For conference papers given before 2012 please go to PADS website