During the past decade, social mechanisms and mechanism-based explanations have
received considerable attention in the social sciences as well as in the philosophy of …

Despite the copiousness of studies on the risky behaviors of adolescents, we cannot
establish with certainty the leading aspects involved in teens' substance abuse and criminal …

Why do certain people commit acts of crime? Why does crime happen in certain places?
Presenting an ambitious new study designed to test a pioneering new theory of the causes …

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to criminological theory for
students taking courses in criminology at both undergraduate and postgraduate level …

Morality is rarely the main topic in criminological theory and research. However, an analysis
of what constitutes a crime and what moves people to engage in acts of crime suggests that …

Our current understanding of the role of the social environment in crime causation is at best
rudimentary. Guided by the theoretical framework of Situational Action Theory, and using …

Historically speaking, criminological theory tends to pay great attention to identifying the
various sources of criminal motivation while downplaying the opportunity to carry out crime …

In this paper we will test one of the key assumptions of Situational Action Theory: that
individuals'(law-relevant) morality is more fundamental to their crime involvement than their …

This book discusses two of the oldest and hardest problems in both science and philosophy:
What is matter?, and What is mind? A reason for tackling both problems in a single book is …

In this review, I argue for a broader perspective on exposure to violence, one that extends
beyond victimization and direct witnessing of violence to consider exposure to violent …