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15 Eur. J. Criminology 3 (2018)

handle is hein.journals/eujcrim15 and id is 1 raw text is: European Introduction Criminology European journal of Criminology 2018, Vol. 15(1) 3-9 Introduction to the Special TeAto~)21 @ The Author(s) 2017 Reprints and permissions: Issue with somri e reflections sagepub.co.ul/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1477370817732182 on the role of self-control in journals.sagepub.com/home/euc Situational Action Theory OSAGE Helmut Hirtenlehner Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria jost Reinecke University of Bielefeld, Germany In recent years, Per-Olof Wikstrom's Situational Action Theory (SAT) (for example, Wikstrom, 2010; Wikstrom et al., 2012) has become one of the most-examined crime theories among European criminologists interested in crime causation. Although devised as a tool to explain rule-breaking behaviour in general, most contemporary applications deal with its potential to account for the formation of criminal or delin- quent conduct. The theory's key argument is that the interaction between an individual with a certain crime propensity and a setting with a certain criminogeneity triggers a perception-choice process that immediately governs action. Therewith SAT represents both a broad and a deep theory.' It is broad in the sense that it successfully integrates person-oriented and environment-oriented explanations of criminal conduct. It is deep in the sense that it illuminates the mechanism that brings about criminal behaviour. A distinct feature is the theory's focus on the interactive interplay of the various factors and processes involved in crime causation. 'It's all about interactions' (Wikstrom et al., 2012) excellently describes the theory's central credo. This implies a shift from the study of the unconditional effects of various influencing entities to their conditional effects, which runs through all articles included in this Special Issue of the European Journal of Criminology. In the first contribution to this issue, Wikstrom and colleagues provide a thorough introduction to SAT and preferred ways of testing it. Then they employ neural network Corresponding author: Helmut Hirtenlehner, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Centre for Criminology, Altenbergerstrasse 69, 4040 Linz, Austria. Email: helmut.hirtenlehner@jku.at

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