Per-Olof H Wikström, FBA

Explaining Criminal Careers As Crime Events Why does people’s crime involvement vary and change? Developmental and Life-Course criminology has brought individual change to the forefront of criminological study and has done an impressive job of ...

Just published this open access, SAT based, paper on Criminal Careers explained as a series of Crime Events , aiming to integrate the Psychology and Sociology of people’s pathways in crime through action theory .

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Spent the week teaching and meeting with colleagues at Malmö University. An intense but rewarding week.
Celebrated with a well-deserved princess cake at Emporia!

This was the theme of one of the first ASC conferences I attended and I guess it has stuck with me ever since.

Time for a new wave of PADS+ data collection. Visiting the PADS+ office meeting Kyle and Beth, and our new research assistants (Katie, Rhianna, Giulia) who will be doing the most important job interviewing the participants. And of course it was time for a coffee!

Regeringen tilldelar åtta personer regeringens utmärkelser Belöningsmedaljen Illis quorum meruere labores och hederstiteln Professors namn är två av regeringens främsta utmärkelser och tilldelas personer so...

Happy and honoured to report being awarded by the Swedish government the Medal of Reward in Gold of the Eighth Size with inscription “Illis quorum meruere labores” (To those whose deeds deserve it) for many years of significant contributions to criminological research

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New study by Andrzej Uhl and Beth Hardie, studying CORRUPTION with Polish data, informed by Situational Action Theory

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Enjoyable concert at the O2. One of the many perks living in a commuting distance to London and it’s rich cultural life.

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New very interesting open access SAT inspired paper by Helmut Hirtenlehner and Gorazd Mesko:
Crime propensity and lifestyle risk: The interplay of personal morality and self-control ability in determining the significance of criminogenic exposure

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Wishing everyone a happy summer and many good readings! There is in my view nothing better than a coffee and a good book.

Just published SAT inspired open access study of CYBERBULLYING by Seong-Sik Lee and Sohee Jung:
How Do Internal and External Control Factors Affect Cyberbullying? Partial Test of Situational Action Theory. Link below:

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New SAT inspired Swedish open access study of CHILD-TO-PARENT VIOLENCE by Robert Svensson, Lisa Andersson and Björn Johnson.

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Spent an enjoyable day teaching at the ESC summer school. Meeting some of the criminologists of the future (and Fernando and Marcelo)

Congratulations to Dr Kyle Treiber that just has been appointed Professor at the University of Cambridge. Such a brilliant mind. It is a particular pleasure to see your former PhD students do well.

Psillos is an old favourite of mine and his book with loannidis does not disappoint. Two very good books.

Enjoying a break in the Spanish sun and some very good books. Carruthers's just published book makes a good argument that philosophical treatments of action theory would benefit from taking better into account cognitive sciences, and, among other things, the role of habits.

Enjoying Tea and Scones at the Orchard. One of many classic and lovely spots in Cambridge.

WONDERFUL to see BRYNÄS ready for the finals. Lucky that at least there is an English pay channel that shows matches from the SHL. Brings back wonderful childhood memories from my short ‘career' in Brynäs boys' team 3 😂
As they say.
Once Brynäs, always Brynäs!

Interview I did with Kurir, a leading Austrian newspaper
Enjoyed talking to this excellent journalist on crime and its prevention

Cumulative Risk as a Marker of Social Context Background This paper takes on ‘Farrington's challenge’ ‘to bridge the gap between risk factor research and more complex explanatory theories’ by offering an explanation for the unexplained statisti.....

Cumulative risk as a marker of social context
New open access paper by myself and Kyle Treiber in which we suggest and preliminary test an explanation of the phenomenon of cumulative risk in the study of crime

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Hunting in the digital jungle: Exploring cyberstalking with higher order moderation in situational action theory The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the applicability of Situational Action Theory (SAT) in understanding cyberstalking behavior. Using a ra…

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Just published SAT inspired paper by Saeed Kabiri in Journal of Criminal Justice:
Hunting in the digital jungle:
Exploring cyberstalking with higher order moderation in situational action theory.

Spent a few days in Vienna, one of my favourite cities
Gave a talk at the University of Applied Science on the causes of crime and its prevention. Had interesting discussions with policy-makers; a weissbier, a lovely Vivaldi church concert, a Sacher cake, and a visit to Albertina

The PADS+ cohort is now in their mid 30s. We did the first data collection at their age of 12, interviewing their parents, including collecting
retrospective data about their children from birth. The main findings from the study so far has been published in two books

Time to become a 'grey eminence'😂
The succession of the PADS+ study is in full swing, 'the three musketeers', the highly
experienced and skilful team of Beth Hardie, Gabriela Roman and Kyle Treiber, under Kyle's
leadership, is just in the process of recruiting the fieldworkers

Very enjoyable for people like me interested in the role of rules and their role in human action. A good and recommended read!

Coincidently, I just received this book by Newburn and Ward that has a large section on smoking so perhaps? I will instantly be proven wrong. Look forward to read this one!