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Per-Olof H Wikström, FBA

@powikstrom.bsky.social

Professor Emeritus University of Cambridge. Professor Malmö universitet. Situational Action Theory (SAT) its development, testing and policy & prevention application. Short Bio; https://www.crim.cam.ac.uk/People/professor-per-olof-wikstrom

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Self-Control, Intoxication and Violence: A Cross-National Comparison of English and Swedish Adolescents - International Criminology This paper draws upon situational action theory (SAT) to frame and test the relationship between alcohol intoxication and violence in adolescents from on-going longitudinal studies in two European cou...

New SAT inspired open access comparative study on alcohol and violence in Sweden and England by Kyle Treiber and Robert Svensson

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New open access SAT related
German longitudinal study (ages
14-18) by Jasper Bendler :The
Heterogeneous Development of
Norm Orientation.

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Authors summary of key findings

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Redirecting

New SAT inspired Australian study by Molly McCarthy and colleagues involving 3287 youth (10-16 years) who have had contact with the law. The study shows that exposure to criminogenic environments has the strongest impact on RE-OFFENDING.

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SAT BIBLIOGRAPHY. For those interested. I have attached to one of my LinkedIn posts a bibliography of 147 published SAT related works in English. Apologises, I did not find a way to attach the bibliography here.

25.01.2026 13:27 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Morality of Speeding and the Conditional Relevance of Controls - International Criminology While many studies have investigated Situational Action Theory’s (SAT) situational model of crime causation, most have failed to capture the nuance of its core principles of moral correspondence and t...

The Morality of Speeding and the Conditional Relevance of Controls.

New SAT inspired paper by Chae Rosé & Beth Hardie.

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21.01.2026 18:04 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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I Onsdags presenterades ESO rapporten "Innan det är för sent" om ungas brott och dess
förebyggande pà ett seminarium i Stockholm. Jag har bidragit med ett kapitel om "Brott som moraliskt handlande" (link till rapporten nedan)

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Congratulations to Fabian Hasselhorn who today successfully defended his PhD thesis (University of Cologne): Investigating the Influence of Self-Control on Rule-breaking: Advancing Empirical Tests on Situational Action Theory Through Rigorous Operationalizations and Experimental Designs.

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Just back from Sweden. Took part last week in Stockholm in a ceremony for the awarding of the government's reward medal in gold: “Illis Quorum Meruere Labores" presented by the Swedish Prime Minister, and introduced by the Minister of Justice.

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Cybercrime Correlates Among Adolescents in Europe and South America: A Cross-National Analysis Based on Situational Action Theory - Janne Vepsäläinen, Markus Kaakinen, Noora Ellonen, Karin Arbach, Mar... Cybercrime is increasingly recognized as a global issue, with adolescents being a key group as crime trends shift online. However, relatively little is known ab...

New interesting study on cybercrime, analysed from an SAT perspective, by Janne Vespäläinen et al.

doi.org/10.1177/1043...

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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 .

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

20.09.2025 07:10 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
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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!

11.09.2025 17:28 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This was the theme of one of the first ASC conferences I attended and I guess it has stuck with me ever since.

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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!

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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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21.08.2025 12:58 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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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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Study abstract

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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

doi.org/10.1177/1477...

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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.

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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:

doi.org/10.3390/bs15...

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

doi.org/10.1177/0011...

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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)

14.06.2025 04:22 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

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

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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.

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