RT Article
T1 Crime propensity and lifestyle risk: the interplay of personal morality and self-control ability in determining the significance of criminogenic exposure
JF European journal of criminology
SP 1
OP 21
A1 Hirtenlehner, Helmut 1970-
A2 Meško, Gorazd 1965-
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1932216987
AB According to Situational Action Theory, acts of crime are the result of a propensity—exposure interaction, with greater effects of criminogenic exposure for people of higher crime propensity—the latter determined by personal morality and the ability to exercise self-control. The present study delves into this interplay using individual-level survey data from adolescents in Slovenia. It goes beyond extant research by explicitly testing the three-way interaction of personal morality, self-control ability and a criminogenic lifestyle. Employing a respondent's lifestyle risk as proxy measure of the extent of exposure to crime-conducive settings, supportive results are obtained. An individual's lifestyle risk fosters criminal activity particularly among those with higher crime propensity. There is also evidence of a complex three-way interaction according to which self-control ability protects against detrimental lifestyle risk effects mainly among adolescents exhibiting weak morality. This suggests that personal morality and the capacity for self-control jointly and interdependently condition the significance of criminogenic exposure.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 17-20
K1 Lifestyle risk
K1 Morality
K1 propensity–exposure interaction
K1 Self-control
K1 Situational Action Theory
DO 10.1177/14773708251348321