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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Situational Action Theory"”.
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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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Motivation and Morality in Intimate Partner Violence: A Partial Test of Situational Action Theory
… test of the motivation-perception process within Situational Action Theory (SAT) using the context of intimate partner violence (IPV). Specifically, the role of morality as a moderating factor in the relationship between motivation and IPV perpetration is explored for both the provocation and …
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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
… can be explained within the same general theory of crime. This thesis applies situational action theory, a general theory of crime that places morality at the centre of its explanatory framework, to the understanding and explanation of intimate partner violence. This thesis concentrates on …
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Disentangling School Climate: Analysing the causes of problem and criminal behaviour in schools through the theoretical lens of Situational Action Theory
While the exact role of schools is somewhat contested, most would agree that they should be safe environments where teachers can help to facilitate the healthy development of young people. Unfortunately, evidence suggests that problem and criminal behaviour is an issue in a significant number of …
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Why monitoring doesn't always matter: The situational role of parental monitoring in adolescent crime
… provide support for person-environment interactions inherent in the causal model of Situational Action Theory, and provide a novel addition to evidence that could be used in future to inform policy-relevant recommendations concerning parenting behaviour and adolescent offending. Although this …
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The roles of empathy, shame, and guilt in violence decision-making
… and guilt in violence decision-making using a Situational Action Theory perspective. Qualitative in-depth interviews were carried out with a violent offender subsample taken from the longitudinal Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study (PADS+) in order to explore the role of …
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Collective efficacy in micro-places: Exploring the perception and enforcement of moral rules in neighbourhood settings
… empirically to the study of collective efficacy theory when used as a measure of moral rules and their level of enforcement in neighbourhood settings. The first part of the thesis explores how the concept of collective efficacy has been developed in socio-spatial criminological research, bridging …
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Crime Propensity in Collective and individualistic Societies: A cross-culture comparison between China and the UK
… and Eastern countries? Western research based on Situational Action Theory (SAT) has demonstrated that young people’s crime involvement varies by their law-relevant personal morals and ability to exercise self-control (seen as the main sources of people’s crime propensity). The overall aim of this …
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Low Heart Rate and Crime: Exploring the Link From an Analytical Perspective
… yielding mixed results. Therefore, employing situational action theory as a theoretical framework, a new explanatory model of the relationship between low heart rate and crime was developed. It was argued that heart rate cannot be a cause of crime, but only a marker of a cause of crime. …
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The problematic dual objective of Psychopathic Personality Disorder: A study of in-school rule-breaking behaviour
Objective This thesis aims to challenge the way in which Psychopathic Personality Disorder is defined and understood. There is a major emphasis on PPD’s ability to predict (and some argue explain) criminal behaviour, which leads to a heterogeneity of individuals labelled with PPD and confusion …
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Explaining School-Based Aggression: A Situational Analysis of Peer Influence
Objective: This thesis examines the situational role of aggressive peers in the explanation of school-based aggression. Peer influence research has traditionally been limited by the neglect of person-environment interactions, the failure to specify and test plausible causal mechanisms, and the need …