Studying Situational Interaction - Hardie, Beth

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Résumé :
Chapter 1: Why and how criminology must integrate individuals and environments

? Abstract

? People, places and acts of crime

o The problematic dichotomy of criminology

o Aggregations of crime and acts of crime: The problematic level of explanation

o The problematic dichotomised study of crime events

o Why integrate people and places to explain action?

? Person-environment integration: How?

o The additive and interactive worldviews

o Approaches to criminological research

o Interaction, explanation, prevention

? Summary: Advocating an analytic criminology of person-environment interaction in acts of crime for effective prevention

? References

? Abstract

? Lacking an integrative model of action

? Studying dependency

? Integrative models of acts of crime

o Situational Action Theory and the situational model

o 'Situation', 'environment' and 'setting'

? Studying convergence: New approach, new methods

o Exposure

o Summary

? Appendix: Clarity of definitions and concepts: 'situation', 'environment' and 'setting'

o Conceptual ambiguity in psychology

o Conceptual conflation in criminology

o 'Situation' in criminology: Historical context of a misnomer

? Abstract

? Making do without situation-level exposure data

? Interaction (dependence) in regression models

? Solving the problematic distribution of crime

o Non-linear models

o Transformation of the dependent variable

o OLS regression plus safeguards

? Reliability and interpretation

o Significance

o Comparing groups to access meaning

? Abstract

? Collecting situation-level exposure data

o Space-Time Budgets

o Randomised Scenarios

o Future methodological avenues

o Additive Analysis

o Situational Analysis

o Evaluating approaches to analysis of situation-level data for appropriate study of situational interaction

? Studying situational interaction: Conclusion and next steps

o Approach

o Data collection

o Data analysis

o Interactionist fundamentalism: Any room for compromise on the interactive approach?

o Coda