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...

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!

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 share.google/iZKoTDI5c9Tp...

New study by Andrzej Uhl and Beth Hardie, studying CORRUPTION with Polish data, informed by Situational Action Theory eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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

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...

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: doi.org/10.3390/bs15...

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...

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.

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 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 doi.org/10.1002/cbm....

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

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

Understanding the mechanisms of change in moral norms and its behavioural effects are crucial knowledge for crime prevention policy and practise. I have not seen any in-depth analysis of the changing moral norms of smoking and its drivers but that may just be due to my ignorance?

EXPLAINING THE AGE AND CRIME DISTRIBUTION. In our PADS+ data that age-crime distribution rather closely match trends in young peoples crime propensity and criminogenic exposure. Even more interesting is that analysing this..,

New open access paper by Christoph Hermann: A framework for testing theories of criminal decision-making using VR scenarios and process tracing and its application to situational action theory. Link: t.co/PFyh3cRiVM

Always a Christmas moment when it knocks on the door and a book you have ordered appears. I got this one second hand. Have looked forward to read it for quite a while now. Also have Chisholm's book on Perceiving on order.

New paper exploring religion, morality and adolescent substance use by Peter S. Lehmann & Ghady Hbeilini t.co/Yy3CbltYiE

My young scholar nostalgics. An exciting time when you do not really know what the future holds. But a time I hope all Young scholars cherish. And remember that most of the best social science work is made by 40+ people. So you have time to master your topic.

More than 35 years ago (1989) Liska, Krohn and Messner observed that: "Many contemporary efforts that purport to pursue the goal of theoretical integration might be bettet described as attempts of prediction" They continued to say:

The core causal question for criminology is what MOVES people to break rules of the law. What makes a person to see and choose crime as an action alternative as a response to a motivation in a particular circumstance.

Inte så Engelskt men….

The basic SAT situational model for the explanation of the occurrence of crime events illustrated. For details see Ch 2 in our book Character, Circumstances and Criminal Careers global.oup.com/academic/pro...

PREDICTION is about forecasting (correlation and time ordering). CAUSATION is about establishing if a predictors) actually produces the effect, and EXPLANATION is about understanding how that works (identifying a plausible mechanism/s). Explanation is the prime goal of science.

One fundamental problem of asserting crime causation in terms of social categories such as, for example, sex, age, social class and ethnicity is the huge within-group variation. Typically, most people in any such category do not commit more crimes than people in general.

Dags att skrota brottstriangeln som grundval och ledstjärna för den lokala brottspreventionen och inse att det inte är 'tillfället som gör tjuven' utan snarare att det är ’tjuvar som tar tillfället i akt', năgot som med säkerhet gäller för brott av någon större allvarlighet.

I have described the criminology of place as a criminology without people. The criminology of place would benefit a lot from better considering the role of people (propensities) and the role of their differential reactions to various environmental conditions (incentives).

Cambridge. My amazing and inspiring home of 27 years.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for three Research Assistants to join Dr Kyle Treiber and a team of senior researchers in the Institute of Criminology to work on the third phase of the Peterborough Adolescent to Adult Development Study (PADS+). www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50125/

Stathis Psillos book is an excellent introduction to and overview of the problems of correlation and causation, and providing explanation, a central background to master when aiming to separate the theoretical wheat from the chaff advancing knowledge of crime and its prevention

People are rule-guided creatures. The causes of their actions are situational, an outcome of how they see and choose their action alternatives when responding to motivations in the circumstance, a result of the interaction of their propensities and the settings inducements.

My home away from home when working in Malmö and visiting Denmark. Probably the best airport hotel in the world.

Time to fly back home. After second stint of Malmö teaching and annual unplanned visit to Hvidovre.

Nägra händelserika dagar i Malmö och Köpenhamn. Och fika med Robert Svensson!

Under uppväxten spenderar barn och tonåringar den största delen av sin vakna tid inom familjen och skolans ramar. Vad familj och skola gör och inte gör har därför stor betydelse för innehållet i ungas moralbildning och utvecklingen av deras förmåga till självkontroll.

Samtal med Sista Måltiden. En intressant men ovanlig upplevelse för mig som är van med strukturerade presentationer och diskussioner. Men säkert en nyttig erfarenhet! Och sällskapet var trevligt. open.spotify.com/episode/0jX0...

Looking forward to present and discuss our research with the students of this years European Summer School of Criminology www.unil.ch/unil/en/home...

Today’s adventure. Took part in Sista Måltiden podden

Just finished a stint teaching undergraduates in a rainy, cold and windy Malmö.

A new SAT inspired paper by Herrmann, Uhl, & Treiber: "Peeking into the Black Box of Offender Decision-Making: A Novel Approach to Testing Situational Action Theory's Perception-Choice Process" www.crimrxiv.com/pub/xt9mzi8o...

A foggy Skåne

På besök i Maglarp och jobbar med Marie på var lärobok