In this chapter I consider two ways by which the legitimacy of legal authorities might motivate people to abide by the law. Following recent criminological research I define legitimacy along two different dimensions: the first is the public recognition of the rightful authority of an institution, and the second is a sense among citizens that the institution is just, moral and appropriate. Data ...

This article discusses how a cognitive modelling approach for criminal behaviour can be related to a biological modelling approach. The discussion is illustrated by a case study for the behaviour of three types of violent criminals as known from literature within the area of Criminology. A cognitive model is discussed that can show each of the behaviours of these types of criminals, depending o...

Some 30 years after integrative theory was first introduced to criminology as an explicit attempt to move beyond mono-disciplinary thinking (Jeffrey, 1978; Johnson, 1979; Elliott, Agerton, & Canter, 1979; Elliott, Huizinger & Ageton, 1985; Colvin & Pauly, 1983; Hawkins & Weis, 1985; Pearson & Weiner, 1985; Messner, Krohn, & Liska, 1989; Akers, 1994; Hagan, 1989), it is surprising that criminolo...

Background: This paper describes the work undertaken over many years by the author and colleagues concerning the role of opportunity in crime. The work began in the early 1970s in the Home Office Research Unit, the British government’s criminological research department. Discussions: The work supported a preventive approach – situational crime prevention – that was highly contentious in the cri...

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Offenders are more likely than non‐offenders to be victims, and victims are more likely than non‐victims to be offenders. So far, the overlap between offenders and victims is not well understood in criminology, and in the economics of crime this stylized empirical fact is even widely ignored. One of the major limiting problems seems to be the lack of adequate individual data. This paper tries t...