Happy to report that we have received an Outstanding Contribution Award for our book Character, Circumstances and Criminal Careers from the American Society of Criminology's division for Development and Life-Course Criminology. See book link below: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Killings Falsely Reported as Combat Deaths by the Colombian Military: A Situational Action Theory Analysis. Just published interesting qualitative research and analysis by Sandy Vera Giraldi in a very difficult to study area. Link below. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Situational Action Theory and Schools. New open access study by Liam McSharry on the moral context of schools and its impact on student crime. Crime prone students are most affected by a weak school moral context. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

New open access studie by Linnea Schumacher et al on Young People's Partner Violence Based on PADS+ data link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

New SAT inspired open access comparative study on alcohol and violence in Sweden and England by Kyle Treiber and Robert Svensson link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Self-Control, Intoxication and Violence: A Cross-National Comparison of English and Swedish Adolescents - International Criminology

This paper draws upon situational action theory (SAT) to frame and test the relationship between alcohol intoxication and violence in adolescents from on-going longitudinal studies in two European cou...

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New open access SAT related German longitudinal study (ages 14-18) by Jasper Bendler :The Heterogeneous Development of Norm Orientation.

New SAT inspired Australian study by Molly McCarthy and colleagues involving 3287 youth (10-16 years) who have had contact with the law. The study shows that exposure to criminogenic environments has the strongest impact on RE-OFFENDING. doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

SAT BIBLIOGRAPHY. For those interested. I have attached to one of my LinkedIn posts a bibliography of 147 published SAT related works in English. Apologises, I did not find a way to attach the bibliography here.

The Morality of Speeding and the Conditional Relevance of Controls. New SAT inspired paper by Chae Rosé & Beth Hardie. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

The Morality of Speeding and the Conditional Relevance of Controls - International Criminology

While many studies have investigated Situational Action Theory’s (SAT) situational model of crime causation, most have failed to capture the nuance of its core principles of moral correspondence and t...

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I Onsdags presenterades ESO rapporten "Innan det är för sent" om ungas brott och dess förebyggande pà ett seminarium i Stockholm. Jag har bidragit med ett kapitel om "Brott som moraliskt handlande" (link till rapporten nedan) eso.expertgrupp.se/wp-content/u...

Congratulations to Fabian Hasselhorn who today successfully defended his PhD thesis (University of Cologne): Investigating the Influence of Self-Control on Rule-breaking: Advancing Empirical Tests on Situational Action Theory Through Rigorous Operationalizations and Experimental Designs.

Just back from Sweden. Took part last week in Stockholm in a ceremony for the awarding of the government's reward medal in gold: “Illis Quorum Meruere Labores" presented by the Swedish Prime Minister, and introduced by the Minister of Justice.

New interesting study on cybercrime, analysed from an SAT perspective, by Janne Vespäläinen et al. doi.org/10.1177/1043...

Cybercrime Correlates Among Adolescents in Europe and South America: A Cross-National Analysis Based on Situational Action Theory - Janne Vepsäläinen, Markus Kaakinen, Noora Ellonen, Karin Arbach, Mar...

Cybercrime is increasingly recognized as a global issue, with adolescents being a key group as crime trends shift online. However, relatively little is known ab...

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Just published this open access, SAT based, paper on Criminal Careers explained as a series of Crime Events , aiming to integrate the Psychology and Sociology of people’s pathways in crime through action theory . www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Explaining Criminal Careers As Crime Events

Why does people’s crime involvement vary and change? Developmental and Life-Course criminology has brought individual change to the forefront of criminological study and has done an impressive job of ...

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Spent the week teaching and meeting with colleagues at Malmö University. An intense but rewarding week. Celebrated with a well-deserved princess cake at Emporia!

This was the theme of one of the first ASC conferences I attended and I guess it has stuck with me ever since.

Time for a new wave of PADS+ data collection. Visiting the PADS+ office meeting Kyle and Beth, and our new research assistants (Katie, Rhianna, Giulia) who will be doing the most important job interviewing the participants. And of course it was time for a coffee!

Happy and honoured to report being awarded by the Swedish government the Medal of Reward in Gold of the Eighth Size with inscription “Illis quorum meruere labores” (To those whose deeds deserve it) for many years of significant contributions to criminological research share.google/iZKoTDI5c9Tp...

Regeringen tilldelar åtta personer regeringens utmärkelser

Belöningsmedaljen Illis quorum meruere labores och hederstiteln Professors namn är två av regeringens främsta utmärkelser och tilldelas personer so...

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New study by Andrzej Uhl and Beth Hardie, studying CORRUPTION with Polish data, informed by Situational Action Theory eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Enjoyable concert at the O2. One of the many perks living in a commuting distance to London and it’s rich cultural life.

New very interesting open access SAT inspired paper by Helmut Hirtenlehner and Gorazd Mesko: Crime propensity and lifestyle risk: The interplay of personal morality and self-control ability in determining the significance of criminogenic exposure doi.org/10.1177/1477...

Wishing everyone a happy summer and many good readings! There is in my view nothing better than a coffee and a good book.

Just published SAT inspired open access study of CYBERBULLYING by Seong-Sik Lee and Sohee Jung: How Do Internal and External Control Factors Affect Cyberbullying? Partial Test of Situational Action Theory. Link below: doi.org/10.3390/bs15...

New SAT inspired Swedish open access study of CHILD-TO-PARENT VIOLENCE by Robert Svensson, Lisa Andersson and Björn Johnson. doi.org/10.1177/0011...

Spent an enjoyable day teaching at the ESC summer school. Meeting some of the criminologists of the future (and Fernando and Marcelo)

Congratulations to Dr Kyle Treiber that just has been appointed Professor at the University of Cambridge. Such a brilliant mind. It is a particular pleasure to see your former PhD students do well.

Enjoying a break in the Spanish sun and some very good books. Carruthers's just published book makes a good argument that philosophical treatments of action theory would benefit from taking better into account cognitive sciences, and, among other things, the role of habits.

Enjoying Tea and Scones at the Orchard. One of many classic and lovely spots in Cambridge.

WONDERFUL to see BRYNÄS ready for the finals. Lucky that at least there is an English pay channel that shows matches from the SHL. Brings back wonderful childhood memories from my short ‘career' in Brynäs boys' team 3 😂 As they say. Once Brynäs, always Brynäs!

Interview I did with Kurir, a leading Austrian newspaper Enjoyed talking to this excellent journalist on crime and its prevention