Wikstrom's situational action theory:
A) suggests that self-control and morality are important to understanding criminal propensity.
B) argues that provocations and temptations are important to consider when explaining criminal behavior.
C) identifies individual, situational, settings-based, and social mechanisms that interact to produce criminal behavior.
D) all of the above.
E) none of the above.

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Wikstrom's situational action theory encompasses all the elements mentioned: it highlights the importance of self-control and morality in understanding criminal propensity, acknowledges the role of provocations and temptations in explaining criminal behavior, and identifies various mechanisms (individual, situational, settings-based, and social) that interact to produce criminal behavior.

Wikstrom's Situational Action Theory