Digital Piracy: An Examination of Three Measurements of Self-Control

The effect of low self-control on perceived police legitimacy

“…Some scholars have used behavioral indicators of self-control (Holtfreter et al, 2008;McGloin, Pratt, & Maahs, 2004;Pratt, Turner, & Piquero, 2004), some have tested Hirschi's reconceptualization of self-control (Piquero & Bouffard, 2007;Higgins, Wolfe, & Marcum, 2008), and still others have used the more widely known Grasmick et al (1993) attitudinal self-control scale Gibbs, Giever, & Higgins, 2003;Higgins, 2007;Piquero et al, 2004;Kissner & Pyrooz, 2009;Unnever, Cullen, & Pratt, 2003). Regardless of its operationalization, however, self-control is routinely supported by the literature as a key predictor of crime (Pratt & Cullen, 2000;Tittle, Ward, & Grasmick, 2003).…”

Hirschi’s Reconceptualization of Self-Control: Is Truth Truly the Daughter of Time? Evidence from Eleven Cultures

“…Five of the studies (Gunter & Bakken, 2012;Higgins, Wolfe, & Marcum, 2008;Morris, Gerber, & Menard, 2011;Piquero & Bouffard, 2007;Rocque, Posick, & Zimmerman, 2013) compared and contrasted different measures of self-control. Each study used a measure developed based on the redefinition of self-control and compared its effectiveness of predicting or explaining deviance against the most commonly used scale by Grasmick et al (1993).…”

The Influence of the Social Bond on Self-control at the Moment of Decision: Testing Hirschi’s Redefinition of Self-control

“…He has elsewhere stated that the offender becomes "a person relatively free of the intimate attachments, the aspirations, and moral beliefs that bind people to a life within the law" (Hirschi 2002, p.xxi). Hirschi (2004, p.543) further described self-control as the "set of inhibitions one carries with one wherever one happens to go" (e.g., for elucidation in the area of digital piracy, see Higgins et al 2008). Of particular interest for the present effort, Hirschi (2004) suggested that self-control can at least "be initially described by going to the elements of the bond identified by social control theory" (i.e., attachment, beliefs, commitment, involvement).…”