Universität zu Köln

Sattler, Sebastian ORCID: 0000-0002-6491-0754, van Veen, Floris ORCID: 0000-0003-1923-2840, Hasselhorn, Fabian, Mehlkop, Guido ORCID: 0000-0003-3095-6188 and Sauer, Carsten ORCID: 0000-0002-8090-6886 (2022). An experimental test of Situational Action Theory of crime causation: Investigating the perception-choice process. Soc. Sci. Res., 106. SAN DIEGO: ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE. ISSN 1096-0317

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Abstract

Criminal action, according to Situational Action Theory (SAT), is a two-stage process consisting of a perception and a choice process. This Germany-wide vignette study (N = 3,088, participants recruited offline) provides an explicit and extensive test of these processes. It experimentally varied the informal moral context, deterrence (sanctions and detection risk), and possible gains of selling prescription drugs illegally in a 2x2x2x2 between-subject design. Personal morality and self-control were measured. Double-hurdle models show that personal morality served as a filter for the perception of criminal alternatives. Law-conforming moral context information, high selfcontrol, and deterrence lowered the crime willingness. Thereby, this study underlines the usefulness of an explicit modeling of the dual-process of criminal conduct, in which certain antecedents only play a role in a certain process. While several findings corroborate assumptions from SAT, an influence of the informal moral context was only found in the choice process, not in the perception process.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Sattler, Sebastian UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-6491-0754 UNSPECIFIED van Veen, Floris UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-1923-2840 UNSPECIFIED Hasselhorn, Fabian UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Mehlkop, Guido UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-3095-6188 UNSPECIFIED Sauer, Carsten UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-8090-6886 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-680795
DOI:	10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102693
Journal or Publication Title:	Soc. Sci. Res.
Volume:	106
Date:	2022
Publisher:	ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
Place of Publication:	SAN DIEGO
ISSN:	1096-0317
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language SELF-CONTROL; RATIONAL CHOICE; CONDITIONAL RELEVANCE; EXPERIMENTAL VIGNETTE; PRESCRIPTION DRUGS; DELINQUENT PEERS; GENERAL-THEORY; SANCTION RISK; DETERRENCE; NORMS Multiple languages Sociology Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/68079