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Criminology

a theory holding that crime results when a person's morality and self-control interact with the moral setting they are in, so acts of crime are moral actions.

In criminology, situational action theory refers to a theory holding that crime results when a person's morality and self-control interact with the moral setting they are in, so acts of crime are moral actions. This meaning comes from Wikström (2007) in European Journal of Criminology.[1]

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Wikström, P. H., & Treiber, K. (2007). The Role of Self-Control in Crime Causation: Beyond Gottfredson and Hirschi's General Theory of Crime. European Journal of Criminology, 4(2), 237-264. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477370807074858

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