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Per-Olof H. Wikström

Per-Olof H. Wikström

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
44
Citations
10268
World Ranking
4074
National Ranking
683

Overview

Per-Olof H. Wikström is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily spans the fields of social sciences and health professions, with emphasis on sociology, political science, general health professions, and epidemiology.

Their research topics include:

  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
  • Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis

Wikström has published in several venues, including:

  • Annual Review of Criminology
  • Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health
  • The Encyclopedia of Research Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice
  • Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Wikström include:

  • Analytic Criminology: Mechanisms and Methods in the Explanation of Crime and its Causes (2021), Annual Review of Criminology
  • Space-Time Budget Methodology (2021), The Encyclopedia of Research Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice
  • Cumulative Risk as a Marker of Social Context (2025), Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health
  • The Short-Term Impact of Formal Controls on Subsequent Offending and Future Formal Controls in a German and UK City (2023), Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology

Their frequent co-authors include Clemens Kroneberg, Kyle Treiber, Beth Hardie, Klaus Boers, and Florian Kaiser.

Best Publications

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

    Per-Olof H. Wikström

  • The interaction between impulsivity and neighborhood context on offending: The effects of impulsivity are stronger in poorer neighborhoods

    Donald R. Lynam;Avshalom Caspi;Terrie E. Moffitt;Per-Olof H. Wikström

  • Risk and promotive effects in the explanation of persistent serious delinquency in boys

    Magda Stouthamer-Loeber;Rolf Loeber;Evelyn Wei;David P. Farrington

  • Criminal deterrence and sentence severity : an analysis of recent research

    Andrew Von Hirsch;A. E. Bottoms;Elizabeth Burney;Per-Olof Wikström

  • DO DISADVANTAGED NEIGHBORHOODS CAUSE WELL-ADJUSTED CHILDREN TO BECOME ADOLESCENT DELINQUENTS? A STUDY OF MALE JUVENILE SERIOUS OFFENDING, INDIVIDUAL RISK AND PROTECTIVE FACTORS, AND NEIGHBORHOOD CONTEXT*

    Per‐Olof H. Wikström;Rolf Loeber

  • The Role of Self-Control in Crime Causation Beyond Gottfredson and Hirschi's General Theory of Crime

    Per-Olof H. Wikström;Kyle Treiber

  • Crime as Alternative: Towards a Cross-Level Situational Action Theory of Crime Causation

    Per-Olof H. Wikström

  • The Explanation of Crime: Individuals, settings, and acts of crime: situational mechanisms and the explanation of crime

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  • Activity Fields and the Dynamics of Crime

    Per-Olof H. Wikström;Vania Ceccato;Beth Hardie;Kyle Treiber

  • Explaining Crime as Moral Actions

    Per-Olof H. Wikström

  • When does self-control matter? The interaction between morality and self-control in crime causation

    Per-Olof H. Wikström;Robert Svensson

  • What predicts adolescent violence in better-off neighborhoods?

    Jennifer M. Beyers;Rolf Loeber;Per-Olof H. Wikström;Magda Stouthamer-Loeber

  • Why Small Is Better: Advancing the Study of the Role of Behavioral Contexts in Crime Causation

    Dietrich Oberwittler;Dietrich Oberwittler;Per-Olof H. Wikström

  • The Social Origins of Pathways in Crime: Towards a Developmental Ecological Action Theory of Crime Involvement and Its Changes

    Per-Olof H. Wikström

  • Situational Action Theory

    Per-Olof H. Wikström

  • Violence as Situational Action

    Per-Olof H. Wikström;Kyle H. Treiber

  • Adolescent Crime: Individual Differences and Lifestyles

    Per-Olof H. Wikström;David A. Butterworth

  • The Explanation of Crime: Context, Mechanisms, and Development

    Per-Olof H. Wikström;Robert J. Sampson

  • Order, Conflict, and Violence: The social order of violence in Chicago and Stockholm neighborhoods: a comparative inquiry

    Robert J. Sampson;Per-Olof H. Wikström

  • Why crime happens: A situational action theory

    Per-Olof H. Wikström

  • Urban Crime, Criminals, and Victims

    Per-Olof H. Wikström

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Sampson
Robert J. Sampson Harvard University
Rolf Loeber
Rolf Loeber University of Pittsburgh
David P. Farrington
David P. Farrington University of Cambridge
Magda Stouthamer-Loeber
Magda Stouthamer-Loeber University of Pittsburgh
Terrie E. Moffitt
Terrie E. Moffitt Duke University
Donald R. Lynam
Donald R. Lynam Purdue University West Lafayette
Manuel Eisner
Manuel Eisner University of Cambridge
Avshalom Caspi
Avshalom Caspi Duke University

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