Peeking into the Black Box of Offender Decision-Making: A Novel Approach to Testing Situational Action Theory’s Perception Choice Process
Peeking into the Black Box of Offender Decision-Making: A Novel Approach to Testing Situational Action Theory’s Perception Choice Process
Christoph Herrmann Andrzej Uhl Kyle H. Treiber a Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UKb Clare College, Cambridge, UKc St John’s College, Cambridge, UKChristoph Herrmann: Developed the methodology (experimental video scenarios and process tracing techniques) for this paper, compiled and wrote the literature review, led the hypothesizing, developed the plan for data analysis, and wrote the discussion and conclusion sections. He was involved in data analysis and visualization of the results as well as writing of the results section. He further led the production and editing of the video scenarios.Andrzej Uhl: Took the lead in carrying out the data analysis, the visualizations of results, and the writing of the results section. He also reviewed the writing and study materials and was also involved in the filming of the video scenarios.Kyle Treiber: Provided guidance on study materials, offered theoretical guidance, and reviewed the manuscript.