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Per-Olof H Wikström, FBA

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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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Per-Olof H Wikström, FBA @powikstrom.bsky.social · Dec 25

New book. Character, Circumstances and Criminal Careers

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Per-Olof H Wikström, FBA @powikstrom.bsky.social · 19d

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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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 ...

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Per-Olof H Wikström, FBA @powikstrom.bsky.social · 27d

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!

Per-Olof H Wikström, FBA @powikstrom.bsky.social · Aug 31

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

Per-Olof H Wikström, FBA @powikstrom.bsky.social · Aug 29

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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Per-Olof H Wikström, FBA @powikstrom.bsky.social · Aug 21

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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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...

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Per-Olof H Wikström, FBA @powikstrom.bsky.social · Aug 12

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

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Per-Olof H Wikström, FBA @powikstrom.bsky.social · Jul 20

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

Per-Olof H Wikström, FBA @powikstrom.bsky.social · Jul 7

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Per-Olof H Wikström, FBA @powikstrom.bsky.social · Jul 7

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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Per-Olof H Wikström, FBA @powikstrom.bsky.social · Jul 1

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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Per-Olof H Wikström, FBA @powikstrom.bsky.social · Jun 24

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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Per-Olof H Wikström, FBA @powikstrom.bsky.social · Jun 19

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

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Per-Olof H Wikström, FBA @powikstrom.bsky.social · Jun 14

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

Per-Olof H Wikström, FBA @powikstrom.bsky.social · Jun 12

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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Per-Olof H Wikström, FBA @powikstrom.bsky.social · May 19

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

Per-Olof H Wikström, FBA @powikstrom.bsky.social · May 19

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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Per-Olof H Wikström, FBA @powikstrom.bsky.social · May 2

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

Per-Olof H Wikström, FBA @powikstrom.bsky.social · Apr 12

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!

Per-Olof H Wikström, FBA @powikstrom.bsky.social · Apr 1

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

Per-Olof H Wikström, FBA @powikstrom.bsky.social · Mar 29

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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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.....

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Per-Olof H Wikström, FBA @powikstrom.bsky.social · Mar 25

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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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Per-Olof H Wikström, FBA @powikstrom.bsky.social · Mar 25

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.

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