Explications situationnelles et sociales du comportement délinquant: Test des hypothèses centrales de la théorie de l’action situationnelle auprès d’un échantillon d’adolescents belges
Moralité; Contrôle de soi; Théorie de l'action situationnelle; Environnement criminogène
Abstract :
[fr] La Théorie de l’Action Situationnelle (TAS) est une théorie générale du crime qui propose d’expliquer la décision du passage à l’acte délinquant comme le résultat de l’interaction entre la propension criminelle d’un individu et l’environnement criminogène dans lequel cet individu décide de commettre un délit. Sur base de l’échantillon des données belges de la Recherche Internationale de Délinquance Auto-révélée (ISRD-3), composé de 4758 adolescents, des régressions multiples (OLS) ont été menées afin de tester les questions centrales de l’axe situationnel ainsi que quelques questions de l’axe socio-développemental. Les résultats obtenus démontrent que la propension criminelle et l’exposition à des environnements criminogènes participent individuellement et conjointement au comportement délinquant des adolescents; que la moralité explique davantage cette propension criminelle que le contrôle de soi ; et enfin, que cette propension est-elle-même expliquée de façon significative par de faibles relations avec les parents et avec l’école ainsi que par une criminalité perçue à l’école et dans le voisinage (exposition socio-écologique). Les contributions de cette recherche tendent à confirmer les questions centrales de la TAS auprès d’un échantillon européen, en partie francophone, nous permettant de discuter certaines pistes de prévention et défis méthodologiques autour de la TAS. [en] The Situational Action Theory (SAT) is a general action theory of crime which explains acts of offending as the result of interaction between crime propensity and specific criminogenic exposure. Multiple regressions (OLS) have been performed on the Belgian sample from the International Study of research on Delinquency (ISRD-3), composed of 4758 adolescents. The goal aims to test several key propositions of the SAT (situational and socio-developmental parts). The results show that crime propensity and specific criminogenic exposure contribute individually and in an interactive way to offending; that morality has a stronger effect on self-reported offending and last, that individual differences in crime propensity are well explained by the cumulative effect of weak parental relationships, weak teacher-pupil bonds and perceived crime in schools and neighborhood (cumulative criminogenic ecological exposure). This study confirms the major hypotheses of the SAT on a partly French speaking European sample and discusses some prevention actions and methodological issues for future research.
Disciplines :
Criminology
Author, co-author :
Mathys, Cécile ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de criminologie > Délinquance juvénile
Grégoire, Julie
Gavray, Claire ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences sociales > Département des sciences sociales
Pauwels, Lieven
Language :
French
Title :
Explications situationnelles et sociales du comportement délinquant: Test des hypothèses centrales de la théorie de l’action situationnelle auprès d’un échantillon d’adolescents belges
Alternative titles :
[en] Situational and social explanations of offending behaviour: Test of situational action theory’s main hypothesis among Belgian youths’ sample
Publication date :
2021
Journal title :
Criminologie
ISSN :
0316-0041
eISSN :
1492-1367
Publisher :
Presses de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
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