RT Article
T1 Incorporating sociocultural and situational factors into explanations of interpersonal violent crime
JF Psychology, crime & law
VO 25
IS 6
SP 675
OP 692
A1 Dixon, Louise
A2 Harkins, Leigh
A2 Wegerhoff, Daniel
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1736560654
AB This review adapts a previously prescribed multifactorial model of multiple perpetrator sexual offending (Harkins, L., & Dixon, L. (2010). Sexual offending in groups: An evaluation. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 15(2), 87-99.) to more fully inform explanations of different types of interpersonal violent crime. First, factors within the sociocultural and situational contexts of the model are reviewed, as well as the interactions between them and the individual context, to examine their role in explaining a broad range of violent crimes. Exemplars of street-gang and intimate partner violence are then examined to assess how the empirical evidence supports the proposed framework. It is concluded that the adapted multifactorial model lays the foundations for fuller causal explanations of violent crime without restricting the focus to a specific crime type, or level of explanation, in addition to bridging interdisciplinary theoretical gaps.
K1 interpersonal violence
K1 Gangs
K1 Intimate Partner Violence
K1 Multifactorial model
K1 Perpetration
K1 Violent Crime
DO 10.1080/1068316X.2018.1557183