Abstract
Purpose: This study scrutinizes Situational Action Theory’s (SAT) implications of how internal and external criminogenic factors concerning the rule of moral correspondence develop conjointly over the life-course and how this affects offending during emerging adulthood.Objectives: The main objective is to empirically explore whether the development of moral correspondence displays heterogeneity that can be theoretically linked to heterogeneous offending developments. Additionally, the paper also discusses unexpected co-occurrences arising specifically for the new opportunity structures to commit crimes in emerging adulthood via the broader developmental perspective proposed by the Developmental Ecological Action model of SAT (DEA).Methods: Results from two separate classification models (latent class growth analysis and repeated-measurement latent class analysis) following a German non-offender sample’s (N = 1810) transition between adolescence and emerging adulthood (ages 14 to 28) are cross-tabulated.Results: Five moral correspondence pathways differentiated by the timing, speed and completeness of achieving pro-social states can be extracted. The longer individuals resist this maturitation process during adolescence, the higher their chances are to follow a trajectory during emerging adulthood characterized by proclivities for youth crimes. However, these also follow a diminishing trend. Contrary, rising trajectories fueled by proclivities to commit adult crimes are less often associated by a remiss to maturity. Social selection into specific activity fields seems to play an important role in the availability and accessibility to either type of crime, thus, offering an explanation for these diverging results.Conclusion: SAT and its developmental framework DEA serve as useful blueprints to map the development of changes in crime and its related causes even with non-situational data through its analytical rigor to integrate micro-, meso-, and macro-levels of explanation.
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Appendix
| Age of inclusion | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| 13 – 28 | Graffities | Scratching | Vandalism | Machine theft | Shoplifting | Bicycle theft | Motor-vehicletheft | Theft out of vehicle |
| Purse snatching | Robbery | Burglary | Other thefts | Accepting-stolen goods | Aggrav. assaultw/o a weapon | Aggrav. assaultwith a weapon | Drug dealing | |
| 20 – 28 | Driving w/o permit | Hit and run | Partner violence | |||||
| 22 – 28 | Illegal-employment | Drunk driving | ||||||
| 24 – 28 | Ill. advantage-over employer | Ill. advantage-for employer | ||||||
| 26 – 28 | False claims(insurance) | False claims(public agency) | Tax evasion | False represent-tation(sale of goods) | Selling goods w/ointent to deliver | Fraudul.induce-mentto contract | ||
| 28 | Paying for service w/o bill | Illicit upload of proprietary media |
| Model | BIC | aBIC | Entropy | LMR p-value |
| C2 | 12145.86 | 12091.86 | 0.800 | 0.0000 |
| C3 | 11969.59 | 11902.88 | 0.713 | 0.0000 |
| C4 | 11937.06 | 11857.64 | 0.703 | 0.0189 |
| C5 | 11938.06 | 11845.92 | 0.714 | 0.2805 |
| C6 | 11923.49 | 11818.65 | 0.703 | 0.7984 |



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- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Corona und Compliance
- The maturing moral perception of crime: The development of moral correspondence and its association with emerging adults’ delinquent involvement
- Das Prostituiertenschutzgesetz im Lichte der Kriminalitätsstatistik
- Der sexuelle Missbrauch von Kindern und kinderpornografische Delikte – Längerfristige Entwicklungsverläufe und ein empirischer Vergleich verschiedener Fallgruppen
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Corona und Compliance
- The maturing moral perception of crime: The development of moral correspondence and its association with emerging adults’ delinquent involvement
- Das Prostituiertenschutzgesetz im Lichte der Kriminalitätsstatistik
- Der sexuelle Missbrauch von Kindern und kinderpornografische Delikte – Längerfristige Entwicklungsverläufe und ein empirischer Vergleich verschiedener Fallgruppen
- Therapieauflagen und Nachsorge bei haftentlassenen Sexualstraftätern: Prädiktoren und Zusammenhänge mit der Rückfälligkeit
- Buchbesprechungen
- Beecken, Johanna: Weibliche Jugendstrafgefangene in Deutschland. Eine bundesweite Bestandsaufnahme mit vollzugspolitischen Reformvorschlägen
- Jörg Kinzig: Noch im Namen des Volkes? Über Verbrechen und Strafe Zürich: Orell Füssli Verlag, 2. Aufl. 2020
- Holger Schmidt: Ungerechtigkeit im Jugendstrafvollzug. Biographische Erkundungen einer sozialmoralischen Gefühlsregung