Over the past 50 years, researchers in the United States and abroad have debated the
inherent inequities within justice systems that contribute to the underreporting of crime to the …

The interplay of sanctions, perceptions, and crime has special significance in criminology
and is central to a long tradition of perceptual deterrence research as well as to more recent …

The Psychology of Criminal Conduct, Seventh Edition, provides a psychological and
evidence-informed perspective of criminal behavior that sets it apart from many …

Trait‐state models aim to provide an encompassing view of offender decision‐making
processes by linking individual dispositions to proximal factors. In an experiment using an …

Objectives: This study proposes an alternative hypothetical scenario method capitalizing on
the potential of virtual reality (VR). Rather than asking participants to imagine themselves in …

Research Summary Offender decision‐making generally occurs in social context. In this
article, we discuss the potential for integrating insights on peer processes and decision …

Research from environmental criminology, policing, and related literatures consistently finds
that objective conditions related to risk of apprehension affect crime. The mechanism …

Delinquency shows an increase in adolescence and is hence often cited as a behaviour
explainable in terms of adolescent risk-taking models. In this review we summarise …

There are more than 20 theories that explain crime. Each theory has weaknesses, and no
scholar knows which theory is best. To remedy this unsatisfactory situation a new research …

Objectives To investigate how peer dynamics, specifically interpersonal conversations
between a potential offender and a peer, contemporaneous with a crime opportunity …