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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study"”.
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The roles of empathy, shame, and guilt in violence decision-making
The roles of shame and guilt, and their relationships to empathy, have not been modelled adequately as key factors in moral decision-making in the study of violence. This research will test the different roles of empathy, shame, and guilt in violence decision-making using a Situational Action …
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A test of situational action theory in Saudi Arabia
Situational Action Theory (SAT) is a recent and increasingly popular framework for explaining criminal behaviour, especially among youths. It argues that most people comply with the law and refrain from committing crime because they do not see crime as an action alternative, not because they are …
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Situational action theory and intimate partner violence: An exploration of morality as the underlying mechanism in the explanation of violent crime
… apply general theories of crime to understanding its causes (Dixon, Archer, & Graham-Kevan, 2012). Indeed, some scholars reject the notion that the causes of intimate partner violence align with the causes of general crime and violence (Dobash, Dobash, Wilson, & Daly, 1992). A second area …
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Why monitoring doesn't always matter: The situational role of parental monitoring in adolescent crime
… is not always relevant for the prevention of adolescent crime because adolescents with strong personal moral rules and the ability to exercise self control are unlikely to offend even when they are unsupervised and know that their parents have little knowledge about their activities. Parental …