Whether and how violence can be controlled to spare innocent lives is a central issue in
international relations. The most ambitious effort to date has been the International Criminal …

Criminology: Explaining Crime and Its Context, Ninth Edition, is a highly acclaimed textbook
offering a broad perspective on criminological theory. It provides students of criminology and …

Objectives: This study extends theoretical arguments from situational action theory (SAT) by
focusing on the enduring effects of neighborhood context on individual criminal involvement …

This chapter explores why people commit crimes. It reveals that there are many competing
theories that provide a variety of answers to this question. The chapter reviews and …

Using data elicited from a random sample of 1435 adults residing in Lviv, Ukraine, and
Nizhni Novgorod, Russia, this study tests rational choice theory (RCT) across gender …

Using survey data from a sample of 1,435 Ukrainian and Russian adults, this study
examines the interplay between collective processes, individual-level self-control, and …

This book summarizes and synthesizes a vast body of research on the effects of legal
punishment and criminal behavior. Covering studies conducted between 1967 and 2015 …

This study provides a new assessment of Merton's anomie/strain theory and fills in several
gaps in the literature. First, using the data from the sample of adolescents in an especially …

One of the founding principles of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is the prevention of
atrocities by punishing those most responsible for them. This paper builds on the literature …

Advocates of wartime international criminal tribunals (ICTs) hope that such tribunals can
deter combatant atrocities against civilians. Yet, more than twenty-five years after the …