[内容简介]Why do certain people commit acts of crime? Why does crime happen in certain places? Presenting an ambitious new study designed to test a pioneering new theory of the causes of crime, Breaking Rules: The Social and Situational Dynamics of Young People's Urban Crime demonstrates that these questions can only go so far in explaining why crime happens - and, therefore, in preventing it. Based on the work of the Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study (PADS+), Breaking Rules presents an analysis of the urban ..

[目次]PART 1 - ANALYSING CRIME AS SITUATIONAL ACTION: THEORY, METHODS, KEY CONSTRUCTS, AND BASIC FINDINGS ;
1. Situational Action Theory (SAT) ;
2. The Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study (PADS+) ;
3. Young people's crime, crime propensity, and criminogenic exposure: Key constructs and basic findings ;
PART 2 - THE SOCIAL DYNAMICS OF YOUNG PEOPLE'S URBAN CRIME ;
4. Peterborough, its urban structure, and crime ;
5. Young offenders and their crimes in the urban environment ;
6. Young people, their activities, and criminogenic exposure ;
PART 3 - THE SITUATIONAL DYNAMICS OF YOUNG PEOPLE'S CRIME ;
7. The crime convergence: Kinds of people in kinds of settings ;
8. Choosing crime as an alternative: Crime propensity, the perception-choice process, and crime ;
PART 4 - IT'S ALL ABOUT INTERACTIONS ;
9. Key findings and implications ; APPENDICES ; Technical appendix ; Space-time budget coding appendix