Helmut Hirtenlehner

TL;DR: The authors assesses the association between national welfare state regimes and public insecurities about crime across Europe and conclude that state-level social protections may buffer the development of widespread fear of crime by increasing self-efficacy and thereby mitigating various social and economic fears.

TL;DR: An overview of the current state of research on Situational Action Theory (SAT) can be found in this article, where studies that have examined core propositions of SAT within the period 2006 to 2015 are reviewed.

TL;DR: Situational Action Theory (SAT) provides a fertile framework within which to study the effectiveness of controls as discussed by the authors, and SAT's principle of the conditional relevance of controls states that controls only influence behavior when a person is forced to deliberate over action alternatives because of conflict between his/her own moral rules and those of the setting.

TL;DR: SAT, a recently developed explanation of criminal conduct, is becoming increasingly studied as mentioned in this paper, however, nearly all tests of the theory and its hypotheses have been found to be false.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used crime survey data from three European countries to examine whether the criminogenic effect of exposure to delinquent peers is dependent on adolescents' capability for self-control.