Ernst, André
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
The Action-Generating Mechanisms of Rule-Breaking: Overcoming Methodological Challenges in Empirical Tests of Situational Action Theory and the Code of the Street
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The Action-Generating Mechanisms of Rule-Breaking: Overcoming Methodological Challenges in Empirical Tests of Situational Action Theory and the Code of the Street
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Rule-breaking is an actor's reaction to the behavioral setting to which they are exposed. Understanding this interplay between a person and their behavioral setting is significant for developing crime prevention measures and understanding crime as a social phenomenon. The action-generating mechanism explains rule-breaking via the interplay between actors' criminal propensity and behavioral settings' criminogeneity. It addresses what would have happened if a person’s criminal propensity and a setting's criminogeneity had been different. Previous tests of the action-generating mechanism on observational data failed to control for actors' exposure to different kinds of behavioral settings and, thus, also for selection. The selection mechanism precedes the action-generating mechanism and challenges previous findings while people are systematically exposed to different behavioral settings and also levels of criminogeneity. I control for selection and thus provide a more rigorous test by using fixed-effect estimation models and strategically using the school setting of the Friendship and Violence in Adolescent data. The research approach is applied to hypotheses derived from Anderson's Code of the Street (study 1) and Wikström’s Situational Action Theory (study 2 and study 3). All-in-all, the results indicate that exposure matters net of the selection of kinds-of-people into kinds-of settings.