Self-Control, Moral Beliefs, and Criminal Activity

Schoepfer, Andrea; Piquero, Alex R.

doi:10.1080/016396290968326

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“…7 Thus, higher values on this measure indicate less parental supervision. Moral beliefs are strongly related to delinquency involvement (Antonaccio and Tittle, 2008;Gallupe and Baron, 2010;Schoepfer and Piquero, 2006;Svensson, Pauwels, and Weerman, 2010), especially when it comes to situational inducements to offending (Wikström, 2006). The AddHealth data do not contain measures of morality, so we measure religiosity as a proxy for moral beliefs.…”

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A Dual‐systems Approach for Understanding Differential Susceptibility to Processes of Peer Influence

Thomas

McGloin

2013

Criminology

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The distinct peer‐based perspectives of deviant normative influence and unstructured/unsupervised socializing with friends contend that adolescents rely on different information when deciding to offend, with the former positing that individuals offend after considering the longer term consequences of behavior, and the latter positing that decisions to offend derive from situational stimuli. We argue that these processes can be organized under a dual‐systems framework of decision making, which leads to the hypothesis that individuals at the edges of impulsivity should be differentially vulnerable to these peer influence processes because of their tendency to rely on only one system of decision making. We use two large data sets to test this hypothesis: a nationally representative sample of adolescents from the AddHealth study (N = ∼9,000) and a pooled panel data set of adolescents from the Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.) evaluation (N = 1,172). The results of longitudinal negative binomial analyses indicate that normative influence by deviant peers has a stronger effect on delinquency for adolescents with low impulsivity than it does for individuals with high impulsivity. Differences in the informal socializing with peers coefficients are less clear and offer minimal support for our predictions.

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A Dual‐systems Approach for Understanding Differential Susceptibility to Processes of Peer Influence

Thomas

McGloin

2013

Criminology

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“…Numerous studies have found support for the hypothesis that low self‐control increases the risk for offending (e.g. Ribeaud and Eisner, ; Schoepfer and Piquero, ; Antonaccio and Tittle, ), as well as for the hypothesis that strong conventional moral values decrease it (e.g. Loeber et al, ; Tibbetts, ; Stams et al, ; Antonaccio and Tittle, ).…”

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An examination of the interaction between morality and self‐control in offending: A study of differences between girls and boys

Ivert

Andersson²,

Svensson

et al. 2018

Criminal Behav Ment Health

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“…In particular, research shows that low self-control is a strong predictor of a host of outcomes, including various forms of criminal and delinquent behavior (Chapple 2005;Holtfreter et al 2010;Perrone et al 2004;Ratchford and Beaver 2009;Schoepfer and Piquero 2006;Vazsonyi and Crosswhite 2004), and criminal victimization (Holtfreter et al 2008;Piquero et al 2005;Schreck 1999;Schreck et al 2006;Stewart et al 2004). The level of empirical support is so strong that Pratt and Cullen's (2000:952) meta-analysis, which revealed self-control to be a robust predictor of a wide range of criminal behaviors across a wide range of methodological specifications, concluded that ''future research that omits self-control from its empirical analyses risks being misspecified.''…”

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