مورد إلكتروني
Activity fields and the dynamics of crime : Advancing knowledge about the role of the environment in crime causation
| العنوان: | Activity fields and the dynamics of crime : Advancing knowledge about the role of the environment in crime causation |
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| بيانات النشر: | KTH, Urbana och regionala studier Taylor and Francis 2017 |
| تفاصيل مُضافة: | Wikström, P. -OH. Ceccato, Vania Hardie, B. Treiber, K. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Electronic Resource |
| مستخلص: | 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 data from the ESRC financed Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study (PADS+), this paper aims to propose how we can better theorise and study the role of the social environment, particularly the person and place interaction, in crime causation. We will introduce, and illustrate the usefulness of, a space-time budget methodology as a means of capturing people's exposure to settings and describing their activity fields. We will suggest and demonstrate that, combined with a small area community survey and psychometric measures of individual characteristics, a space-time budget is a powerful tool for advancing our knowledge about the role of the social environment, and its interaction with people's crime propensity, in crime causation. Our unique data allows us to study the convergence in time and space of crime propensity, criminogenic exposure and crime events. As far as we are aware, such an analysis has never before been carried out. The findings show that there are (a) clear associations between young people's activity fields and their exposure to criminogenic settings, (b) clear associations between their exposure to criminogenic settings and their crime involvement, and, crucially, (c) that the influence of criminogenic exposure depends on a person's crime propensity. Having a crime-averse morality and strong ability to exercise self-control appears to make young people practically situationally immune to the influences of criminogenic settings, while having a crime-prone morality and poor ability to exercise self-control appears to make young people situationally vulnerable to the influences of criminogenic settings. Part of book: ISBN 9781351570701, QC 20230307 |
| مصطلحات الفهرس: | Crime causation, People and place interactions, Peterborough adolescent and young Adult Development Study (PADS+), Situational action theory, Space-time budgets, Law and Society, Juridik och samhälle, Chapter in book, info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart, text |
| URL: | Crime Opportunity Theories : Routine Activity, Rational Choice and their Variants, p. 391-423 |
| الإتاحة: | Open access content. Open access content info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
| ملاحظة: | English |
| أرقام أخرى: | UPE oai:DiVA.org:kth-324584 0000-0001-5302-1698 Scopus 2-s2.0-85131778953 1372251915 |
| المصدر المساهم: | UPPSALA UNIV LIBR From OAIster®, provided by the OCLC Cooperative. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsoai.on1372251915 |
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