Happy to report that our new 600+ pages book Character, Circumstances and Criminal Careers is to be published early February global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Character, Circumstances and Criminal Careers is a sequel to “Breaking Rules” (Wikström, Oberwittler, Treiber & Hardie, OUP, 2012), the first major book presentation of PADS+ research focusing on situational and ecological aspects of young people’s crime in adolescence.

In Character, Circumstances and Criminal Careers we aim to investigate and explain how young people’s character and life circumstances and their combination impact their levels and pathways of crime involvement in adolescence and into young adulthood.

📢NEW ARTICLE📢

Beyond risk factors of sports-related match-fixing: Testing the applicability of Situational Action Theory

Vanwersch, Willem, Constandt, Hardyns.

Bram Constandt UGent FWO #sportsfraud #matchfixing #SituationalActionTheory doi.org/10.1177/147737…

New Research led by Bridget Steele, PhD Oxford DSPI looking at student experiences of sexual violence and harassment in a UK context. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08…

Ok, here's a crash course in jurisprudence -- and an explanation of what I mean when I say that law is a moral practice.

Most conversations about the relationship between law and morality presume a picture that looks like this -- law and morality are separate . . . 1/n

Who takes part in virtual reality studies? An analysis of lighting research - ScienceDirect #VR #Lighting #participants . Larger and more diverse samples are needed in these studies! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Loving this - which are you?!

Come & work with us!

This is a really flexible part-time research associate role on this innovative and exciting project.

jobs.ac.uk/job/DDJ305/res…

Following their Induction last week, we are delighted to welcome our new MPhil & PhD students this week for the start of teaching.

Opportunities for the Public to learn about work in the field of Criminology available too, as we announce our Michaelmas 2023 Term card:

Really, what are we doing?

Join us at 6pm GMT / 2pm Buenos Aires us02web.zoom.us/j/84586872223?… for the first on-line #LAPrisonRadio conference event with Juan Pablo Parchuc Alejandro Demasi Phil Maguire Ryan Conarro & Ruth Armstrong - we are expecting 60 people from 10 countries!

So pleased to announce a project I've been working on with brilliant colleagues. It's fantastic to see the fruits of #SituationalActionTheory bear out in a practical #Intervention . Great to be back in schools too! Looking forward to evaluating #YouthCompass .

Loving this site from Jonathan Brauer and Jake Day .
All things R, and musings on the scientific approach in Criminology! What's not to like! Reluctant Criminologists

reluctantcriminologists.com

My sister and best friend died a month ago.

Excellent paper. Brilliant study. Superb researcher.

Are you a criminologist? Interested in open research? Member of European Society of Criminology (if not that's also fine, but don't tell anyone🤫)? Alongside Amy Nivette, Iain Brennan and others, we are setting up a working group of ESC, and we'll have our first meeting at #eurocrim2023 . Join us!

Rob Sampson lecture at LSE this Thursday. In-person & online.

Does when you are born shape your life chances? When you come of age matters as much (and perhaps more than) who you are in determining whether you get arrested.

lse.ac.uk/Events/LSE-Fes…