Breaking Rules: The Social and Situational Dynamics of Young People’s Urban Crime

Professor Per-Olof H. Wikström is Professor of Ecological and Developmental Criminology at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, and Professorial Fellow of Girton College. He is the director of the Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study (PADS+).; Dr Dietrich Oberwittler has been working with Principal Investigator Per-Olof Wikström since 2004 when he worked for the SCoPiC Network as a Marie Curie fellow until 2006. His particular expertise revolve around spatial analysis and the neighbourhood dimension of crime.; Dr Kyle Treiber is a Research Associate and occasional lecturer who works particularly with the neurocognitive and biopsychological dimensions of the Peterborough Adolescent of Young Adult Development Study (PADS+). ; Beth Hardie is the Research Manager for the Peterborough Adolescent of Young Adult Development Study (PADS+).

This book examines the findings, theoretical basis, and new methodology of The Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study (PADS+). This major longitudinal study investigates the role of the social environment on crime causation, involving a cohort of 700 young people from the age of 12.

PART 1 - Analysing crime as situational action: Theory, methods, key constructs, and basic findings