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1 online resource |
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SpringerBriefs in criminology, 2192-8533 |
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SpringerBriefs in criminology.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Why and How Criminology Must Integrate Individuals and Environments -- People, Places, and Acts of Crime -- The Problematic Dichotomy of Criminology -- Aggregations of Crime and Acts of Crime: The Problematic Level of Explanation -- The Problematic Dichotomised Study of Crime Events -- Routine Activity Theory and Unstructured Socialising Theory -- Situational Crime Prevention -- Self-Control Theory -- Why Integrate People and Places to Explain Action? |
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Person-Environment Integration: How? -- The Additive and Interactive Worldviews -- Approaches to Criminological Research -- Prediction and Explanation -- Interaction, Explanation, and Prevention -- Summary: Advocating an Analytic Criminology of Person-Environment Interaction in Acts of Crime for Effective Prevention -- References -- Chapter 2: Integrating Individuals and Environments: A Situational Approach to Studying Action -- Lacking an Integrative Model of Action -- Studying Dependency -- Integrative Models of Acts of Crime -- Situational Action Theory and the Situational Model |
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'Situation', 'Environment', and 'Setting' -- The Importance of Conceptual Clarity -- Studying Convergence: New Approach, New Methods -- Exposure -- Individual-Level Exposure Data -- Environment-Level Exposure Data -- Situation-Level Exposure Data -- Summary -- Appendix: Clarity of Definitions and Concepts: 'Situation', 'Environment', and 'Setting' -- Conceptual Ambiguity in Psychology -- Conceptual Conflation in Criminology -- 'Situation' in Criminology: Historical Context of a Misnomer -- References -- Chapter 3: Evidencing Situational Interaction Without Situation-Level Exposure Data |
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Making Do Without Situation-Level Exposure Data -- Interaction (Dependence) in Regression Models -- Solving the Problematic Distribution of Crime -- Non-linear Models -- Transformation of the Dependent Variable -- OLS Regression Plus Safeguards -- Reliability and Interpretation -- Significance -- Comparing Groups to Access Meaning -- Multiple Group Analysis -- Graphical Representation -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Collecting and Analysing Situation-Level Exposure Data: Clarifying Appropriate Analysis of Person-Environment Convergence to Explain Action -- Designing Situational Research |
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Collecting Situation-Level Exposure Data -- Space-Time Budgets -- Randomised Scenarios -- Future Methodological Avenues -- Analysing Situation-Level Exposure Data -- Additive Analysis -- Situational Analysis -- Descriptive Methods -- Comparing Rates: Magnitude and Significance -- Inferential Methods -- Evaluating Approaches to Analysis of Situation-Level Exposure Data for Appropriate Study of Situational Interaction -- Studying Situational Interaction: Conclusion and Next Steps -- Approach -- Data Collection -- Data Analysis |
| Summary |
In response to misconceptions and sub-optimal assessment of situational interaction in the criminological literature, this volume is a comprehensive resource for researchers of person-environment interaction in human behavioural outcomes, with a focus on acts of crime. It provides a bridge between strong complex theory about causal situational interaction in crime and the appropriate methods for empirically testing proposed situational mechanisms. It is underwritten by the principle that research should be driven by theory and served by method. This volume clarifies the key concepts of interaction and situation within the framework of Situational Action Theory (SAT). It details the implications of these conceptual issues for an appropriate integrative analytical approach to data collection and analysis that places situational interaction at the heart of research into the causes of behaviour (such as acts of crime). Using existing examples of attempts to analyse person-environment interaction, the volume distinguishes and showcases different methods and evaluates their appropriateness for the study of situational interaction in behaviour. Appropriate for researchers in criminology and the behavioural sciences more generally, Studying Situational Interaction is essential for those studying the individual and environmental causes of human actions such as crime |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Criminology.
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Crime -- Sociological aspects.
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Criminology
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criminology.
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Crime & criminology.
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The self, ego, identity, personality.
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Social Science -- Criminology.
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Psychology -- Personality.
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Crime -- Sociological aspects
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Criminology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783030461942 |
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3030461947 |
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