Situational Action Theory

Wikström, Per‐Olof H.; Oberwittler, Dietrich; Treiber, Kyle; Hardie, Beth

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“…Fourthly, in the present study we focused only on the personal determinants of ASB involvement, and specifically on two aspects of the moral domain, that is, values and judgments. Future studies should expand the focus not only to the personal determinants but also to the environmental ones, as the level of exposure to criminogenic settings, that some models consider as fundamental in relation to the development of delinquency (Wikström, ).…”

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Three‐year cross‐lagged relationships among adolescents’ antisocial behavior, personal values, and judgment of wrongness

2018

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The current study examines reciprocal relations among adolescents' values, antisocial behavior (ASB), and judgment of the wrongness of ASB over 3 years. Four hundred seven (M age 5 14.36 years; SD 5 .72; males 5 56.8%) ninth grade students in Italy completed the Portrait Values Questionnaire, a self-reported ASB scale, and a questionnaire aimed to evaluate how wrong they judged it to be to violate a set of moral and social rules. Responses were obtained again after 1 and 2 years. We analyzed separate cross-lagged models for each of the higher-order value dimensions according to Schwartz's model (conservation, openness to change, self-enhancement, and self-transcendence), using structural equation models. Self-transcendence and conservation values fostered more negative judgments and less ASB over time whereas selfenhancement and openness to change values had no effects. The mediating effect of judgment on the relationship between values and ASB was significant. Moreover, ASB mediated the effects of conservation on subsequent judgments. The results highlight the role of self-transcendence and conservation values as protective factors against ASBs in adolescence. K E Y W O R D S adolescence, antisocial behavior, longitudinal studies, values

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Three‐year cross‐lagged relationships among adolescents’ antisocial behavior, personal values, and judgment of wrongness

2018

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“…Criminology as a discipline is fragmented (Wikström et al, 2017) with theories often competing for empirical supremacy rather than toward integration (see Hirschi, 1969). Where deterrence and rational choice theories fall short is focusing on situational aspects of offending to the detriment of developmental antecedents (Cornish & Clarke, 2017).…”

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“…Conversely, developmental theories often overlook the proximate situational factors that influence offending. Combining these two frameworks merges two typically competing perspectives of offending: individual propensity and situational factors (for prior examples, see Altikriti, 2021; Nagin & Paternoster, 1993; Piquero & Tibbetts, 1996; Wikström et al, 2017). Collectively, evidence from the literature suggests a link between PPTs and perceptions of risk, between PPTs and offending, and between perceptions of risk and offending.…”

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“…Research has assessed how a range of individual differences and characteristics can influence the formation of perceptual deterrence factors (e.g., Jacobs, 2010; Loughran, Piquero, et al, 2012; Pogarsky, 2002) or interact with them (Ray et al, 2020) to affect outcomes of interest. This merger of personality traits with situational factors has the potential to bring distinct subdisciplines together toward theoretical consilience (Wikström et al, 2017).…”

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The Role of Arrest Risk Perception Formation in the Association Between Psychopathy and Aggressive Offending

Altikriti

Nedelec

Silver

2021

Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice

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Research on the role of risk perception as a mechanism linking personality traits and behavioral outcomes is limited. The current study assessed a developmental model of the influence of psychopathic traits (PPTs) on the between- and within-individual variation in perceptions of risk and aggressive offending. Multivariate latent growth curve models were used to estimate the role of risk perceptions in the association between PPTs and aggressive offending in a sample of 1,354 adjudicated youths. The results indicated that PPTs influenced between-individual differences in perceptions of risk (β = −.312) and aggressive offending (β = .256), although the effects on within-individual differences suggested some attenuation over time. Additionally, higher PPT scores exhibited an indirect influence on increased aggressive offending through reduced perceptions of risk (β = .049). Implications from this line of research support calls for a developmentally informed juvenile justice system that considers latent personality traits and their long-term effects. Broader implications support individualized rehabilitative programming and tailored responses to offending over the blanket deterrence approach that dominates the current landscape of the American criminal justice system.

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“…A detailed presentation of the RAF is beyond the scope of this article. The framework, which draws on Wikström's () situational action theory and opportunity and social ecological theories of offending, was developed to articulate the relations between causal factors and processes at multiple levels of analysis (individual, situational, social ecological, systemic) across each phase of the lone‐actor terrorist event (radicalization, attack planning and preparation, attack; see Bouhana et al., , for an in‐depth discussion).…”

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Analyzing person‐exposure patterns in lone‐actor terrorism

Clemmow

Marchment

Gill

2019

Criminology & Public Policy

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Research Summary:The lone-actor terrorist population can be extremely heterogeneous and difficult to detect. Intelligence is vital to countering this threat. We devise a typology of person-exposure patterns (PEPs) that could serve as a framework for intelligence gathering and threat assessment. We use cluster analysis and a risk analysis framework (RAF) to identify relations among three components: propensity, situation, and network.The results of the analysis reveal four PEPs: solitary, susceptible, situational, and selection. The solitary PEP lacks common indicators of a propensity to pursue terrorist action. The susceptible PEP reveals cognitive susceptibility, manifesting as mental illness, to be a key factor in the emergence of a terrorist propensity. The situational PEP demonstrates how situational stressors may act as warnings of acceleration toward violent action. Lastly, the selection PEP demonstrates higher frequencies of leakage and antecedent violent behaviors.Policy Implications: Our findings have two key policy implications. First, given the multifinality of terrorism risk indicators, we suggest a move toward a structuredprofessional judgement approach to the risk analysis of lone-actor terrorists. Second, we present the PEP typology as a framework for intelligence gathering. Existing frameworks are predominantly focused on mobilization 452 CLEMMOW ET AL.indicators. We suggest expanding data collection to include propensity and situational indicators, as operationalized here, and using the PEP typology to inform decisions about the emergence of the motivation to commit an attack. To do so, it is necessary to pursue a multiagency approach to intelligence gathering.

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Situational Action Theory

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Three‐year cross‐lagged relationships among adolescents’ antisocial behavior, personal values, and judgment of wrongness

Three‐year cross‐lagged relationships among adolescents’ antisocial behavior, personal values, and judgment of wrongness

The Role of Arrest Risk Perception Formation in the Association Between Psychopathy and Aggressive Offending

Analyzing person‐exposure patterns in lone‐actor terrorism

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