Welcome to the Centre for Analytic Criminology
The core aim of the Centre for Analytic Criminology is to advance, through theory development and empirical testing, a general, dynamic and mechanism-based explanation of crime and its causes to inform effective crime prevention policies and practices. The staff members of the Centre represent a multi-disciplinary background. We have an extensive network of international collaborators.
The centre’s activities focus around:
- The development and refinement of Situational Action Theory (SAT)
- The testing of key propositions of SAT in the prospective longitudinal Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study (PADS+)
- The building and maintenance of an international network of research collaborations
- The development of key policy and practise implications of the centre’s research
- The dissemination of the findings to policy-makers and practitioners
Our main research projects are:
- Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adults Development Study
- Neurogenetics and differential susceptibility to criminogenic social environments: How do young people develop and express crime propensities?