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Lieven Pauwels

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ID3589512
NAMELieven Pauwels
GIVEN NAMESLieven
FAMILY NAMEPauwels
SIGNATUREPAUWELS L
AFFILIATIONSGhent University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS41
TOTAL CITATIONS124
AUTHOR COUNT41
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX7
  • Rating places and crime prevention: Exploring user-generated ratings to assess place management

    Open Access•Thom Snaphaan, Wim Hardyns et al.•ARTICLE•Computers Environment and Urban…•2024

  • Do money and guilt primes affect the likelihood of theft by taking? Findings from a visualized scenario study

    Open Access•Ann De Buck, Wim Hardyns et al.•ARTICLE•Quality & Quantity•2024

  • Can Social Concern Theory Explain Quarantine-Related Misbehavior During the Covid-19 Pandemic? An Inquiry in the Urban Context of Iran

    Open Access•Saeed Kabiri, Seyyedeh Masoomeh Shadmanfaat et al.•ARTICLE•Crime & Delinquency•2024

    The COVID-19 pandemic has precipitated quarantines in many urban settings, and rules have been enforced to ensure that citizens are complying with health-related mandates. However, anecdotal and empirical evidence confirm the prevalence of policy transgressions. Non-compliance with COVID-19 mandates can have severe consequences for individual health, societal fear, and the global economy. Thus, it is important to better understand the etiology of…

  • Do Moral Values Moderate the Relationship Between Immigrant-School Concentration and Violent Offending? A Cross-Level Interaction Analysis of Self-Reported Violence in Sweden

    Open Access•Z Vasiljević, Lieven Pauwels et al.•ARTICLE•Deviant Behavior•2024•Cited by: 2•References: 47

    The study examines whether school-level immigrant concentration is related to students' involvement in violence, and whether students' moral values moderate the relationship between immigrant concentration and violence. The study is based on six nationally representative school surveys conducted by the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention between 1999 and 2011, with a combined sample of 38,711 adolescents. We have combined different surv…

  • Collective efficacy and disorder through the eyes of neighbourhood inhabitants and key informants

    Open Access•Wim Hardyns, Thom Snaphaan et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Criminology•2023

    This study examines the ecological reliability, convergent validity and ecological stability of neighbourhood (dis)organizational processes measured by means of two methods: inhabitant surveys and the so-called key informant analysis technique. Considering that ecological processes play a major role in many contemporary criminological theories and research, it is vital to take into account methodological challenges and to question the reliability…

  • Using Systematic Social Observations to Measure Crime Prevention through Environmental Design and Disorder: In-situ Observations, Photographs, and Google Street View Imagery

    Open Access•Marlies Sas, Thom Snaphaan et al.•ARTICLE•CAM•2023•Cited by: 4•References: 36

    This study focuses on the use of systematic social observations (SSO) to measure crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) and disorder. To improve knowledge about measurement issues in small area research, SSO is conducted by means of three different methods: in-situ, photographs, and Google Street View (GSV) imagery. By evaluating the methodological quality of the observation methods, the results of our study suggest that virtual SS…

  • Online and offline social support deterioration: The effect of financial stress exposure on depressive symptoms

    Jonas De Meulenaere, K Ponnet et al.•ARTICLE•Behaviour and Information…•2022

    Social support is a prominent factor in mental health etiology. According to the social support deterioration model, exposure to chronic stressors may over time erode people's social support, thereby contributing to increases in mental health issues. Although there is mounting evidence indicating the beneficial consequences of online social support, the extent to which social support deterioration takes place in an online context is to date not i…

  • Structural neighbourhood characteristics, perceived collective efficacy and perceived disorder: A multilevel study on fear of crime

    Wim Hardyns, Lieven J R Pauwels et al.•ARTICLE•Monatsschrift für Kriminologie…•2022

    This study examines whether residential stability and neighbourhood SES, two key neighbourhood structural characteristics from Social Disorganisation Theory (SDT), have a contextual effect on perceived social trust, perceived informal social control, and perceived social disorder and whether these contextual structural and perceptual measures are related to three measures of fear of crime, independent of population composition. Attention is paid …

  • Exploring the User Base of Online Neighborhood Networks: Determinants of Online Neighborhood Network Membership and Uses

    Jonas De Meulenaere, Cédric Courtois et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Urban Technology•2022

    This paper aims to determine the prevalence of the use of online neighborhood networks (ONNs) and explores which socio-demographic, socioeconomic status (SES), social integration, and media use determinants predict ONN membership and uses. Drawing on a stratified random sample (Ghent, Belgium), we found that over a third of the population are ONN members and that membership was mainly predicted by socio-demographic characteristics. Also, in contr…

  • Do Mobile Phone Data Provide a Better Denominator in Crime Rates and Improve Spatiotemporal Predictions of Crime

    Open Access•Anneleen Rummens, Thom Snaphaan et al.•ARTICLE•ISPRS International Journal of…•2021

    This article assesses whether ambient population is a more suitable population-at-risk measure for crime types with mobile targets than residential population for the purpose of intelligence-led policing applications. Specifically, the potential use of ambient population as a crime rate denominator and predictor for predictive policing models is evaluated, using mobile phone data (with a total of 9,397,473 data points) as a proxy. The results sho…

  • Die Person-Umwelt Hypothese der Situational Action Theory und gewalttätiger Extremismus. Ein Teilprüfungsversuch

    Lieven Pauwels, Wim Hardyns et al.•ARTICLE•Monatsschrift für Kriminologie…•2021

    Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Wechselwirkungen zwischen der extremistischen Disposition und der Online-Exposition gegenüber extremistischen moralischen Normen auf politisch-religiös motiviertes Gewalthandeln. Während bei der Erklärung der Delinquenz von Jugendlichen ein stabiler Interaktionseffekt zwischen der Disposition zur Kriminalität und der kriminogenen Exposition nachgewiesen wurde, wurde dieser Interaktionseffekt in keiner frühere…

  • Perceived injustice, perceived group threat and self-reported right-wing violence: An integrated approach

    Howard Williamson, Ann De Buck et al.•ARTICLE•Monatsschrift für Kriminologie…•2021

    The present study seeks to explain individual differences in self-reported politically motivated violence and vandalism, and participation within an extreme right-wing group. While violent extremism is highly debated, few criminological studies explicitly test factors that can trigger violent extremism. The present study addresses this gap by integrating two different frameworks: a perceived injustice and group threat-initiated model and an impul…

  • A Multilevel Perspective on the Health Effect of Social Capital: Evidence for the Relative Importance of Individual Social Capital over Neighborhood Social Capital

    Open Access•Susan Lagaert, Thom Snaphaan et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2021

    Employing a multilevel perspective on the health effects of social capital, this study analyzes how individual and neighborhood differences in self-rated health in Ghent (Belgium), relate to individual and collective social mechanisms, when taking demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of individuals into account. This study estimates the health effects of social trust, informal social control and disorder at the neighborhood level and soc…

  • Research Note: An Investigation of Cybercrime Victims’ Reporting Behavior

    Lies De Kimpe, Michel Walrave et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Crime…•2021

    Even though the dark number is especially high for cybercrimes, it is unclear by whom and to whom cybercrime is reported. Therefore, this study will answer the following questions: (1) who reports cybercrime incidents, and (2) to whom do victims report cybercrime? Analyses based on survey data including 334 recent cybercrime victims, indicate that 73.4% of victims do not report the incident. Cybercrime victims who do report are significantly olde…

  • Empathy and theft by finding: The intermediary role of moral emotions and norms

    Open Access•Ann De Buck, Lieven J R Pauwels et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Community Psychology•2021•References: 102

    This study explores the intermediary role of anticipated shame, guilt, and norms in the association between empathy and the likelihood of a specific uncooperative act: theft by finding. Empirical evidence supports a negative association between empathy and a broad range of uncooperative behaviors. Some studies suggest that empathy reduces noncooperation via intermediary factors such as empathy and moral emotions shame and guilt. Inspired by Marti…

  • 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

    Open Access•Cécile Mathys, Julie Grégoire et al.•ARTICLE•Criminologie•2021•References: 52

    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 la base de l’échantillon des données belges de la Recherche Internationale de Délinquance Auto-révélée (ISRD-3), composé de 4758 adoles…

  • Help, I need somebody: Examining the antecedents of social support seeking among cybercrime victims

    Open Access•Lies De Kimpe, K Ponnet et al.•ARTICLE•Computers in Human Behavior•2020

  • Do Specific Combinations of Parent-Child Relationships Predict Moral Values

    Julie Grégoire, Lieven J R Pauwels et al.•ARTICLE•Deviant Behavior•2020•References: 70

    In this study we examined to what extent different combinations of parent-child relationships explain adolescents' moral values and whether the influence of school and peers predicts moral values. We also investigated whether anticipated shame and anticipated guilt predict moral values. A convenience sample of 1,120 adolescents, including 120 adolescents in youth custody, was used. Results suggest that combinations of parent-child relationships d…

  • Research on Neighborhoods in European Cities

    Lieven J R Pauwels, Lieven Pauwels et al.•BOOK•Oxford Handbook of Environmental…•2018

    This chapter provides an overview of European neighborhood studies of crime, victimization, and delinquency that were explicitly guided or inspired by social disorganization theory. Although the origin of social disorganization theory lies in the United States with a long-lasting tradition in urban research, considerable attention has also been given to this perspective in Europe, as well as in other parts of the world. In Europe, a long research…

  • Studying Situational Effects of Setting Characteristics

    FRANK M WEERMAN, Evelien M Hoeben et al.•BOOK•Oxford Handbook of Environmental…•2018

    This chapter addresses methods to study situational influences of setting characteristics on adolescent offending. In particular, it describes data collection methods (space-time budget interviews, census data, community surveys, and systematic social observations) that enable precise measurement of what respondents do, with whom they undertake these activities, and in what kind of places (both the geographical area and the function of the locati…

  • Endorsement for Extremism, Exposure to Extremism via Social Media and Self-Reported Political/Religious Aggression

    Open Access•Lieven J R Pauwels, Lieven Pauwels et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2018

    In the present study, the interaction between specific measures of endorsement for extremism (e.g. endorsement for religious, left-wing or far-right extremism), thrill-seeking, and active online exposure to extremism via social media with regard to the explanation of politically and/or religiously motivated aggression is investigated. While the relationship between exposure to crime-prone contexts and aggression has been studied widely, no previo…

  • Within-individual Change in Social Support, Perceived Collective Efficacy, Perceived Disorder and Fear of Crime: Results From a Two-wave Panel Study

    Open Access•Wim Hardyns, Lieven J R Pauwels et al.•ARTICLE•The British Journal of Criminology•2018•Cited by: 7•References: 47

    In this study, we untangle the relationships between fear of crime (perceived risk of victimization) and perceptions of, respectively, social support, collective efficacy and perceived disorder. We use a two-wave panel study with 356 respondents. Results show that prior perceptions of disorder have a positive effect on later levels of perceived risk of victimization, lending support to the hypothesis that fear of crime is, in part, determined by …

  • The conditional effects of self-control in situational action theory. A preliminary test in a randomized scenario study

    Lieven J R Pauwels, Lieven Pauwels•ARTICLE•Deviant Behavior•2018•Cited by: 9•References: 54

    This study focuses on the perception-choice process in the Situational Action Theory of Crime Causation (SAT). The effect of self-control ability is studied in conditions of conflict or correspondence between personal morality and circumstantial characteristics. We demonstrate a conditional effect of self-control ability on choosing a violent response in two scenarios. While we demonstrate that self-control ability matters in cases of moral confl…

  • Economic consequences of legal and illegal drugs: The case of social costs in Belgium

    Open Access•Delfine Lievens, Freya Vander Laenen et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Drug…•2017

  • Political Violence and the Mediating Role of Violent Extremist Propensities

    Open Access•Nele Schils, Lieven Pauwels•ARTICLE•Journal of Strategic Security•2016•Cited by: 2•References: 10

    Research into violent extremism is lacking integrated theoretical frameworks explaining individual involvement in politically or religiously motivated violence, resulting in a poor understanding of causal mechanisms. Building on situational action theory, the current study moves beyond the dominant risk factor approach and proposes an integrated model for the explanation of political/religious violence, distinguishing between direct mechanisms an…

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  • Situational Causes of Offending: A Fixed‐effects Analysis of Space–time Budget Data

    Open Access•Wim Bernasco, Stijn Ruiter et al.•ARTICLE•Criminology•2013•Cited by: 26•References: 35

    Situational theories of crime assert that the situations that people participate in contain the proximal causes of crime. Prior research has not tested situational hypotheses rigorously, either for lack of detailed situational data or for lack of analytical rigor. The present research combines detailed situational data with analytical methods that eliminate all stable between‐individual factors as potential confounds. We test seven potential situ…

  • Social Disorganization, Social Capital, Collective Efficacy and the Spatial Distribution of Crime and Offenders: An Empirical Test of Six Neighbourhood Models for a Dutch City

    G J N Bruinsma, Gerben Bruinsma et al.•ARTICLE•The British Journal of Criminology•2013•Cited by: 20•References: 29

    Six different social disorganization models of neighbourhood crime and offender rates were tested using data from multiple sources in the city of The Hague, in the Netherlands. The sources included a community survey among 3,575 residents in 86 neighbourhoods measuring the central concepts of the six models. The data were aggregated to ecologically reliable neighbourhood measures and combined with census data. Crime rates and offender rates were …

  • Is the criminogenic effect of exposure to peer delinquency dependent on the ability to exercise self-control? Results from three countries

    Open Access•Helmut Hirtenlehner, Lieven Pauwels et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Criminal Justice•2015•Cited by: 13•References: 70

  • Differential Online Exposure to Extremist Content and Political Violence: Testing the Relative Strength of Social Learning and Competing Perspectives

    Lieven Pauwels, Nele Schils•ARTICLE•Terrorism and Political Violence•2016•Cited by: 11

    The present study applies Social Learning (Differential Association) Theory to the explanation of political violence, focusing on exposure to extremist content through new social media (NSM) and controlling for key variables derived from rival theories. Data are gathered using (a) a paper-and-pencil study among high school students, and (b) a web survey targeting youths between 16 and 24 years old. A total of 6020 respondents form the dataset. Bi…

  • Is the Effect of Perceived Deterrence on Juvenile Offending Contingent on the Level of Self-Control? Results from Three Countries

    Helmut Hirtenlehner, Lieven Pauwels et al.•ARTICLE•The British Journal of Criminology•2014•Cited by: 11•References: 38

    The aim of this paper is to study the interplay of perceived deterrence and level of self-control in explaining individual differences in self-reported offending. Different theories of crime come to different conclusions in this regard. Some postulate independent negative effects of perceived sanction risk on offending (Deterrence Theory), while others assume that low self-control undermines the deterrent effect of legal sanctions (Self-Control T…

  • The conditional effects of self-control in situational action theory. A preliminary test in a randomized scenario study

    Lieven J R Pauwels, Lieven Pauwels•ARTICLE•Deviant Behavior•2018•Cited by: 9•References: 54

    This study focuses on the perception-choice process in the Situational Action Theory of Crime Causation (SAT). The effect of self-control ability is studied in conditions of conflict or correspondence between personal morality and circumstantial characteristics. We demonstrate a conditional effect of self-control ability on choosing a violent response in two scenarios. While we demonstrate that self-control ability matters in cases of moral confl…

  • Within-individual Change in Social Support, Perceived Collective Efficacy, Perceived Disorder and Fear of Crime: Results From a Two-wave Panel Study

    Open Access•Wim Hardyns, Lieven J R Pauwels et al.•ARTICLE•The British Journal of Criminology•2018•Cited by: 7•References: 47

    In this study, we untangle the relationships between fear of crime (perceived risk of victimization) and perceptions of, respectively, social support, collective efficacy and perceived disorder. We use a two-wave panel study with 356 respondents. Results show that prior perceptions of disorder have a positive effect on later levels of perceived risk of victimization, lending support to the hypothesis that fear of crime is, in part, determined by …

  • Explaining Violent Extremism for Subgroups by Gender and Immigrant Background, Using SAT as a Framework

    Open Access•Nele Schils, Lieven Pauwels•ARTICLE•Journal of Strategic Security•2014•Cited by: 6•References: 1

    The principal object of this paper is to study the effects of extremist propensity, exposure to extremist moral settings and their interaction effect on political violence in sub groups by gender and immigrant background. The situational action theory, as outlined by Wikström is used as a framework. Although previous studies have found empirical evidence for this interaction effect in the light of general offending, no study so far has applied SA…

  • Using Systematic Social Observations to Measure Crime Prevention through Environmental Design and Disorder: In-situ Observations, Photographs, and Google Street View Imagery

    Open Access•Marlies Sas, Thom Snaphaan et al.•ARTICLE•CAM•2023•Cited by: 4•References: 36

    This study focuses on the use of systematic social observations (SSO) to measure crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) and disorder. To improve knowledge about measurement issues in small area research, SSO is conducted by means of three different methods: in-situ, photographs, and Google Street View (GSV) imagery. By evaluating the methodological quality of the observation methods, the results of our study suggest that virtual SS…

  • Neighbourhood Disorder and Worry About Criminal Victimization in the Neighbourhood

    Open Access•Caroline Mellgren, Lieven Pauwels et al.•ARTICLE•International Review of Victimology•2010•Cited by: 4•References: 5

    This study tested a cross-level integrated model of neighbourhood level disorder and individual level vulnerability, in relation to explaining individual differences in worry about criminal victimization 1 . The aim of the present study is (1) to establish if there is unique neighbourhood level variation in worry about criminal victimization, independent of neighbourhood composition, and(2) to establish the extent to which two proposed mechanisms…

  • The Social Roots of Contemporary Prejudice

    Open Access•Ben Heylen, Lieven Pauwels•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2015•Cited by: 3•References: 7

    Background: Evolutionary theory suggests prejudice may be a result of the evolution of human sociality. In this study, we investigate this claim by integrating theoretical insights of evolutionary theory with the well-established social psychological research on prejudice centering on Right Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) and Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) as the main predictors of prejudice. Method: First, we developed two different signaling sc…

  • Schools and Child Antisocial Behavior: In Search for Mediator Effects of School-Level Disadvantage

    Open Access•Lieven J R Pauwels, Lieven Pauwels et al.•ARTICLE•SAGE Open•2015•Cited by: 3•References: 53

    Contextual research on delinquency is primarily based on the idea that residential areas provide a major ecological setting that (indirectly) shapes observed differences in delinquency. Just like neighborhoods, schools differ in terms of their level of structural characteristics such as the concentration of immigrant children and children from disrupted families. Such characteristics may also shape delinquency. The present study aims to test the …

  • Do Moral Values Moderate the Relationship Between Immigrant-School Concentration and Violent Offending? A Cross-Level Interaction Analysis of Self-Reported Violence in Sweden

    Open Access•Z Vasiljević, Lieven Pauwels et al.•ARTICLE•Deviant Behavior•2024•Cited by: 2•References: 47

    The study examines whether school-level immigrant concentration is related to students' involvement in violence, and whether students' moral values moderate the relationship between immigrant concentration and violence. The study is based on six nationally representative school surveys conducted by the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention between 1999 and 2011, with a combined sample of 38,711 adolescents. We have combined different surv…

  • Political Violence and the Mediating Role of Violent Extremist Propensities

    Open Access•Nele Schils, Lieven Pauwels•ARTICLE•Journal of Strategic Security•2016•Cited by: 2•References: 10

    Research into violent extremism is lacking integrated theoretical frameworks explaining individual involvement in politically or religiously motivated violence, resulting in a poor understanding of causal mechanisms. Building on situational action theory, the current study moves beyond the dominant risk factor approach and proposes an integrated model for the explanation of political/religious violence, distinguishing between direct mechanisms an…

  • Why are young adults willing to cooperate with the police and comply with traffic laws? Examining the role of attitudes toward the police and law, perceived deterrence and personal morality

    Open Access•Anjuli Van Damme, Lieven Pauwels•ARTICLE•International journal of law,…•2016•Cited by: 2•References: 2

  • Relationships Between Global and Domain-Specific Self-Evaluations and Types of Offending in Community Boys and Girls: Self-Evaluations and Offending

    Open Access•Lore Van Damme, Olivier Colins et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Community Psychology•2015•Cited by: 1•References: 56

    This study investigates age- and gender-specific relationships between global and domain-specific self-evaluations and types of offending in school-going adolescents. A self-report survey was administered to 710 boys and girls, using the Dutch version of the Self-Perception Profile for Adolescents and an offending questionnaire. Property-only (vs. non-) offending is related to low perceived behavioral conduct. Violent-only (vs. non-) offending is…

  • Temporal Invariance in Repeated Cross-Sectional ‘Fear of Crime’ Research

    Open Access•Stefaan Pleysier, Lieven Pauwels et al.•ARTICLE•International Review of Victimology•2005•References: 2

    ‘Fear of crime’ research is gradually outgrowing the tenacious criticism of being caught within a conservative methodological frame, inherent to the era when the research tradition originated. Over time, the idea that ‘fear of crime’ can be measured in a reliable and valid way by using a single indicator has been questioned. However, using more advanced measures confronts the research tradition with ‘new’ issues related to measurement error, and …

  • Neighbourhood Disorder and Worry About Criminal Victimization in the Neighbourhood

    Open Access•Caroline Mellgren, Lieven Pauwels et al.•ARTICLE•International Review of Victimology•2010•Cited by: 4•References: 5

    This study tested a cross-level integrated model of neighbourhood level disorder and individual level vulnerability, in relation to explaining individual differences in worry about criminal victimization 1 . The aim of the present study is (1) to establish if there is unique neighbourhood level variation in worry about criminal victimization, independent of neighbourhood composition, and(2) to establish the extent to which two proposed mechanisms…

  • Adolescent Offending and the Segregation of Poverty in Urban Neighbourhoods and Schools: An Assessment of Contextual Effects from the Standpoint of Situational Action Theory

    Open Access•Lieven Pauwels, Karen F Parker•ARTICLE•Urban Studies Research•2011

    Contextual research on adolescent offending is primarily based on the idea that residential areas provide a major ecological setting that (indirectly) shapes observed differences in adolescent offending. The social disorganisation/collective efficacy perspective has tried to explain why structural disadvantage of residential areas affects residents′ involvement in offending. On the other hand, contextual research has also been conducted within th…

  • Situational Causes of Offending: A Fixed‐effects Analysis of Space–time Budget Data

    Open Access•Wim Bernasco, Stijn Ruiter et al.•ARTICLE•Criminology•2013•Cited by: 26•References: 35

    Situational theories of crime assert that the situations that people participate in contain the proximal causes of crime. Prior research has not tested situational hypotheses rigorously, either for lack of detailed situational data or for lack of analytical rigor. The present research combines detailed situational data with analytical methods that eliminate all stable between‐individual factors as potential confounds. We test seven potential situ…

  • Social Disorganization, Social Capital, Collective Efficacy and the Spatial Distribution of Crime and Offenders: An Empirical Test of Six Neighbourhood Models for a Dutch City

    G J N Bruinsma, Gerben Bruinsma et al.•ARTICLE•The British Journal of Criminology•2013•Cited by: 20•References: 29

    Six different social disorganization models of neighbourhood crime and offender rates were tested using data from multiple sources in the city of The Hague, in the Netherlands. The sources included a community survey among 3,575 residents in 86 neighbourhoods measuring the central concepts of the six models. The data were aggregated to ecologically reliable neighbourhood measures and combined with census data. Crime rates and offender rates were …

  • How equal is the relationship between individual social capital and psychological distress? A gendered analysis using cross-sectional data from Ghent (Belgium)

    Open Access•Veerle Vyncke, Wim Hardyns et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2014

    The analyses indicate that the association between individual social capital and psychological distress is similar for men and women. The relatively low level of gender stratification in Belgium might have influenced this finding. Furthermore, it is possible that social capital is not of greater importance for women in general, but mainly for women who are in an especially vulnerable social situation that deprives their access to alternative reso…

  • Explaining Violent Extremism for Subgroups by Gender and Immigrant Background, Using SAT as a Framework

    Open Access•Nele Schils, Lieven Pauwels•ARTICLE•Journal of Strategic Security•2014•Cited by: 6•References: 1

    The principal object of this paper is to study the effects of extremist propensity, exposure to extremist moral settings and their interaction effect on political violence in sub groups by gender and immigrant background. The situational action theory, as outlined by Wikström is used as a framework. Although previous studies have found empirical evidence for this interaction effect in the light of general offending, no study so far has applied SA…

  • Micro-Place Disorder, Subjective Powerlessness and Violent Youth Group Involvement: Testing an Integrative Control Theory

    Open Access•Lieven Pauwels, Robert Svensson•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2014•References: 20

    In this study we test an integrative theory that seeks to explain why youth that live in disordered micro-places have an increase likelihood of becoming involved in a violent youth group. The emerging integrative theory is based on the principle of conceptual end-to-end integration and is the result of an attempt to integrate (1) a contemporary version of subjective powerlessness theory with (2) an integrative control framework of violent youth g…

  • Is the Effect of Perceived Deterrence on Juvenile Offending Contingent on the Level of Self-Control? Results from Three Countries

    Helmut Hirtenlehner, Lieven Pauwels et al.•ARTICLE•The British Journal of Criminology•2014•Cited by: 11•References: 38

    The aim of this paper is to study the interplay of perceived deterrence and level of self-control in explaining individual differences in self-reported offending. Different theories of crime come to different conclusions in this regard. Some postulate independent negative effects of perceived sanction risk on offending (Deterrence Theory), while others assume that low self-control undermines the deterrent effect of legal sanctions (Self-Control T…

  • Study protocol: SWING – social capital and well-being in neighborhoods in Ghent

    Open Access•Wim Hardyns, Veerle Vyncke et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal for Equity…•2015

    The opportunities and ambitions of the SWING study are discussed, together with the limitations of the database

  • The Social Roots of Contemporary Prejudice

    Open Access•Ben Heylen, Lieven Pauwels•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2015•Cited by: 3•References: 7

    Background: Evolutionary theory suggests prejudice may be a result of the evolution of human sociality. In this study, we investigate this claim by integrating theoretical insights of evolutionary theory with the well-established social psychological research on prejudice centering on Right Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) and Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) as the main predictors of prejudice. Method: First, we developed two different signaling sc…

  • Relationships Between Global and Domain-Specific Self-Evaluations and Types of Offending in Community Boys and Girls: Self-Evaluations and Offending

    Open Access•Lore Van Damme, Olivier Colins et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Community Psychology•2015•Cited by: 1•References: 56

    This study investigates age- and gender-specific relationships between global and domain-specific self-evaluations and types of offending in school-going adolescents. A self-report survey was administered to 710 boys and girls, using the Dutch version of the Self-Perception Profile for Adolescents and an offending questionnaire. Property-only (vs. non-) offending is related to low perceived behavioral conduct. Violent-only (vs. non-) offending is…

  • Is the criminogenic effect of exposure to peer delinquency dependent on the ability to exercise self-control? Results from three countries

    Open Access•Helmut Hirtenlehner, Lieven Pauwels et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Criminal Justice•2015•Cited by: 13•References: 70

  • Schools and Child Antisocial Behavior: In Search for Mediator Effects of School-Level Disadvantage

    Open Access•Lieven J R Pauwels, Lieven Pauwels et al.•ARTICLE•SAGE Open•2015•Cited by: 3•References: 53

    Contextual research on delinquency is primarily based on the idea that residential areas provide a major ecological setting that (indirectly) shapes observed differences in delinquency. Just like neighborhoods, schools differ in terms of their level of structural characteristics such as the concentration of immigrant children and children from disrupted families. Such characteristics may also shape delinquency. The present study aims to test the …

  • Political Violence and the Mediating Role of Violent Extremist Propensities

    Open Access•Nele Schils, Lieven Pauwels•ARTICLE•Journal of Strategic Security•2016•Cited by: 2•References: 10

    Research into violent extremism is lacking integrated theoretical frameworks explaining individual involvement in politically or religiously motivated violence, resulting in a poor understanding of causal mechanisms. Building on situational action theory, the current study moves beyond the dominant risk factor approach and proposes an integrated model for the explanation of political/religious violence, distinguishing between direct mechanisms an…

  • Why are young adults willing to cooperate with the police and comply with traffic laws? Examining the role of attitudes toward the police and law, perceived deterrence and personal morality

    Open Access•Anjuli Van Damme, Lieven Pauwels•ARTICLE•International journal of law,…•2016•Cited by: 2•References: 2

  • Differential Online Exposure to Extremist Content and Political Violence: Testing the Relative Strength of Social Learning and Competing Perspectives

    Lieven Pauwels, Nele Schils•ARTICLE•Terrorism and Political Violence•2016•Cited by: 11

    The present study applies Social Learning (Differential Association) Theory to the explanation of political violence, focusing on exposure to extremist content through new social media (NSM) and controlling for key variables derived from rival theories. Data are gathered using (a) a paper-and-pencil study among high school students, and (b) a web survey targeting youths between 16 and 24 years old. A total of 6020 respondents form the dataset. Bi…

  • Economic consequences of legal and illegal drugs: The case of social costs in Belgium

    Open Access•Delfine Lievens, Freya Vander Laenen et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Drug…•2017

  • Research on Neighborhoods in European Cities

    Lieven J R Pauwels, Lieven Pauwels et al.•BOOK•Oxford Handbook of Environmental…•2018

    This chapter provides an overview of European neighborhood studies of crime, victimization, and delinquency that were explicitly guided or inspired by social disorganization theory. Although the origin of social disorganization theory lies in the United States with a long-lasting tradition in urban research, considerable attention has also been given to this perspective in Europe, as well as in other parts of the world. In Europe, a long research…

  • Studying Situational Effects of Setting Characteristics

    FRANK M WEERMAN, Evelien M Hoeben et al.•BOOK•Oxford Handbook of Environmental…•2018

    This chapter addresses methods to study situational influences of setting characteristics on adolescent offending. In particular, it describes data collection methods (space-time budget interviews, census data, community surveys, and systematic social observations) that enable precise measurement of what respondents do, with whom they undertake these activities, and in what kind of places (both the geographical area and the function of the locati…

  • Endorsement for Extremism, Exposure to Extremism via Social Media and Self-Reported Political/Religious Aggression

    Open Access•Lieven J R Pauwels, Lieven Pauwels et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2018

    In the present study, the interaction between specific measures of endorsement for extremism (e.g. endorsement for religious, left-wing or far-right extremism), thrill-seeking, and active online exposure to extremism via social media with regard to the explanation of politically and/or religiously motivated aggression is investigated. While the relationship between exposure to crime-prone contexts and aggression has been studied widely, no previo…

  • Within-individual Change in Social Support, Perceived Collective Efficacy, Perceived Disorder and Fear of Crime: Results From a Two-wave Panel Study

    Open Access•Wim Hardyns, Lieven J R Pauwels et al.•ARTICLE•The British Journal of Criminology•2018•Cited by: 7•References: 47

    In this study, we untangle the relationships between fear of crime (perceived risk of victimization) and perceptions of, respectively, social support, collective efficacy and perceived disorder. We use a two-wave panel study with 356 respondents. Results show that prior perceptions of disorder have a positive effect on later levels of perceived risk of victimization, lending support to the hypothesis that fear of crime is, in part, determined by …

  • The conditional effects of self-control in situational action theory. A preliminary test in a randomized scenario study

    Lieven J R Pauwels, Lieven Pauwels•ARTICLE•Deviant Behavior•2018•Cited by: 9•References: 54

    This study focuses on the perception-choice process in the Situational Action Theory of Crime Causation (SAT). The effect of self-control ability is studied in conditions of conflict or correspondence between personal morality and circumstantial characteristics. We demonstrate a conditional effect of self-control ability on choosing a violent response in two scenarios. While we demonstrate that self-control ability matters in cases of moral confl…

  • Help, I need somebody: Examining the antecedents of social support seeking among cybercrime victims

    Open Access•Lies De Kimpe, K Ponnet et al.•ARTICLE•Computers in Human Behavior•2020

  • Do Specific Combinations of Parent-Child Relationships Predict Moral Values

    Julie Grégoire, Lieven J R Pauwels et al.•ARTICLE•Deviant Behavior•2020•References: 70

    In this study we examined to what extent different combinations of parent-child relationships explain adolescents' moral values and whether the influence of school and peers predicts moral values. We also investigated whether anticipated shame and anticipated guilt predict moral values. A convenience sample of 1,120 adolescents, including 120 adolescents in youth custody, was used. Results suggest that combinations of parent-child relationships d…

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