Explaining Crime and Criminal Careers: the DEA Model of Situational Action Theory

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to outline Situational Action Theory (SAT) and its Developmental Ecological Action Model (DEA model) as applied to the explanation of criminal careers. The DEA model of SAT was first presented by Wikstrom in 2005, [34]), and subsequently refined in Wikstrom and Treiber in 2018, [43]), and is further elaborated in this paper.