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Per-Olof H. Wikström

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Per-Olof H. Wikström's Degrees

PhD Criminology Stockholm University
Masters Sociology Stockholm University
Bachelors Sociology Stockholm University

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According to Wikipedia, Per-Olof Helge Wikstrӧm is Professor of Ecological and Developmental Criminology at the University of Cambridge, Professorial Fellow of Girton College and Principal Investigator of the Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study , a major ESRC funded longitudinal study of young people in the UK which aims to advance knowledge about crime causation and prevention. His main research interests are developing a unified theory of the causes of crime , testing it empirically and applying it to devising knowledge-based prevention policies. His work is internationally acknowledged, as demonstrated by his election as a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology in 2010 and a Fellow of the British Academy in 2011.

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Per-Olof H. Wikström's Published Works

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The interaction between impulsivity and neighborhood context on offending: the effects of impulsivity are stronger in poorer neighborhoods. (2000) (478)
DO DISADVANTAGED NEIGHBORHOODS CAUSE WELL-ADJUSTED CHILDREN TO BECOME ADOLESCENT DELINQUENTS? A STUDY OF MALE JUVENILE SERIOUS OFFENDING, INDIVIDUAL RISK AND PROTECTIVE FACTORS, AND NEIGHBORHOOD CONTEXT* (2000) (414)
Breaking Rules: The Social and Situational Dynamics of Young People's Urban Crime (2012) (390)
The Explanation of Crime: Individuals, settings, and acts of crime: situational mechanisms and the explanation of crime (2006) (303)
The Role of Self-Control in Crime Causation (2007) (283)
Criminal deterrence and sentence severity : an analysis of recent research (1999) (268)
Activity Fields and the Dynamics of Crime (2010) (192)
Why Small Is Better: Advancing the Study of the Role of Behavioral Contexts in Crime Causation (2009) (170)
Adolescent Crime: Individual Differences and Lifestyles (2006) (156)
What Predicts Adolescent Violence in Better-Off Neighborhoods? (2001) (141)
When does self-control matter? The interaction between morality and self-control in crime causation (2010) (140)
Explaining Crime as Moral Actions (2010) (134)
Crime as Alternative: Towards a Cross-Level Situational Action Theory of Crime Causation (2017) (130)
Why crime happens: A situational action theory (2014) (128)
Urban Crime, Criminals, and Victims: The Swedish Experience in an Anglo-American Comparative Perspective (1990) (110)
Urban Crime, Criminals, and Victims: The Swedish Experience in an Anglo-American Comparative Perspective (1990) (110)
Order, Conflict, and Violence: The social order of violence in Chicago and Stockholm neighborhoods: a comparative inquiry (2008) (110)
Criminal Careers in London and Stockholm: A Cross-National Comparative Study (1994) (106)
Violence as Situational Action (2009) (105)
The Explanation of Crime: Context, Mechanisms, and Development (2006) (104)
Urban Crime, Criminals, and Victims (1991) (103)
Integrating individual and ecological aspects of crime (1993) (98)
Situational Action Theory (2009) (93)
Age and crime in a Stockholm cohort (1990) (89)
Do people comply with the law because they fear getting caught? (2011) (70)
Crime Propensity, Criminogenic Exposure and Crime Involvement in Early to Mid Adolescence (2009) (68)
Young people’s differential vulnerability to criminogenic exposure: Bridging the gap between people- and place-oriented approaches in the study of crime causation (2018) (64)
In Search of Causes and Explanations of Crime (2007) (63)
Why are English Youths More Violent Than Swedish Youths? (2008) (63)
Urbanisation, Neighbourhood Social Integration, Informal Social Control, Minor Social Disorder, Victimisation and Fear of Crime (2001) (61)
Activity Fields and the Dynamics of Crime Advancing Knowledge About the Role of the Environment in Crime Causation (2010) (60)
Deterrence and Deterrence Experiences. Preventing Crime Through the Threat of Punishment (2008) (57)
The Social Origins of Pathways in Crime: Towards a Developmental Ecological Action Theory of Crime Involvement and Its Changes (2017) (52)
Does Everything Matter? Addressing The Problem Of Causation And Explanation In The Study Of Crime (2011) (46)
Theorizing Terrorism: Terrorism As Moral Action (2008) (42)
Social Disadvantage and Crime (2016) (40)
Everyday violence in contemporary Sweden : situational and ecological aspects (1985) (37)
Preventing City-Center Street Crimes (1995) (35)
What Drives Persistent Offending? The Neglected and Unexplored Role of the Social Environment (2009) (34)
Examining the Role of the Environment in Crime Causation: Small-Area Community Surveys and Space–Time Budgets (2012) (28)
Beyond Risk Factors: An Analytical Approach to Crime Prevention (2017) (28)
Explaining Crime and Criminal Careers: the DEA Model of Situational Action Theory (2019) (27)
Situational Action Theory: A General, Dynamic and Mechanism-Based Theory of Crime and Its Causes (2019) (25)
Analyzing Radicalization and Terrorism (2017) (25)
Violent Crime in the Urban Community: A Comparison of Stockholm and Basel (1999) (22)
The Social Ecology of Crime. The Role of the Environment in Crime Causation (2007) (22)
Crime propensity, criminogenic exposure and violent scenario responses: Testing situational action theory in regression and Rasch models (2010) (22)
Doing without Knowing. Common Pitfalls in Crime Prevention (2007) (21)
Violence , Crime , and Violent Crime (2009) (20)
Young people's differential vulnerability to criminogenic exposure: Bridging the gap between people- and place-oriented approaches in the study of crime causation. (2018) (20)
Crime and crime trends in different urban environments (1990) (19)
Questions of perception and reality. (2009) (18)
Experience or deterrence? Revisiting an old but neglected issue (2017) (17)
CROSS-NATIONAL COMPARISONS AND CONTEXT-SPECIFIC TRENDS IN CRIMINAL HOMICIDE (1991) (13)
Differentiating Right-Wing Extremism from Potential for Violent Extremism: The Role of Criminogenic Exposure (2018) (13)
The Explanation of Crime: Introduction: Toward a unified approach to crime and its explanation (2006) (13)
Housing Tenure, Social Class and Offending: The individual-level relationship in childhood and youth* (1991) (12)
Crime and measures against crime in the city (1990) (11)
Analytic Criminology: Mechanisms and Methods in the Explanation of Crime and its Causes (2021) (9)
Swedish quantitative criminology in the 1990s: A brief overview (1996) (7)
Tracking Social Life and Crime (2011) (7)
VIOLENT CRIME IN SCOTLAND AND SWEDEN Rate, Structure, and Trends (1990) (6)
Individuals’ Situational Criminal Actions (2012) (6)
Routine Activity Theories (2009) (4)
Why are Single Parents More often Threatened with Violence? A Question of Ecological Vulnerability? (2001) (3)
The Dynamics of Change (2018) (2)
Integration and Discussion of Findings (1991) (2)
Explaining Crime and Criminal Careers: the DEA Model of Situational Action Theory (2019) (1)
Routine Activities, Area Crime, and Victimization Patterns (1991) (1)
The Social Contexts of Urban Crime (1991) (1)
The use of acupuncture as an alternative dental analgesic in an individual with multiple allergies. (1984) (1)
Felson’s Review of “Breaking Rules”: Smoke and Mirrors (2015) (1)
Situational Action Theory: Toward a Dynamic Theory of Crime and Its Causes (2019) (1)
[Surgery under hypnosis. Case reports]. (1972) (0)
The Explanation of Crime: Index (2006) (0)
[Auditiv distraction and music-hallucination in dental practice]. (1977) (0)
Separating Selection Effects from Setting Influences?: Crippling Influences of Current Cautions (2008) (0)
Explaining Within and Between Gender Differences in Crime Involvement. A Question of Morality and Life-Styles? (2019) (0)
Deterrence and Deterrence Preventing Crime through the Threat of Punishment (2008) (0)
The Use of Auditory Distraction and Music Hallucinations in Dental Practice (1978) (0)
Special Issue on Sweden Introduction (2001) (0)
Stockholm: Its Crime and Urban Structure (1991) (0)
The Urban Victim (1991) (0)
Housing, Population Composition, and Offending (1991) (0)
Space–Time Budget Methodology (2021) (0)
The Rate, Structure, and Trends in Urban Crime (1991) (0)
Ability to Exercise Self-Control Scale (2012) (0)
The Urban Offender (1991) (0)
The Peterborough Youth Study (2013) (0)
Social Ecology of Crime (2009) (0)
Executive Capabilities, Self-Control and Acts of Crime (2005) (0)

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