Self-Control in the General Theory of Crime:

By Bernd Marcus. 2004

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Subfields: Nature and Landscape Conservation, Sociology and Political Science

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A Systematic Review of Recent Literature on Religiosity and Substance Use (2008, background): “…items describe deviant acts, such as fighting and bullying, they are unlikely to cause the problem of tautology in the measurement of low self-control (Akers, 1991) because those items concern the child’s behavioral tendency rather than a specific act committed during a particular period of time.”
Christian Religiosity, Self-Control and Social Conformity (2006, unknown): “A recent 67-item behavioral self-report scale is reported to predict workplace deviance much better than usual (.60 or above vs. approximately .20 to .30) for other measures (Marcus 2004; Marcus et al. 2002).”
Self-Control and Crime/Deviance: Cognitive vs. Behavioral Measures (2003, background): “However, the contention that ‘‘the best indicators of self-control are the acts we use self-control to explain: criminal, delinquent, and reckless acts’’ (Hirschi and Gottfredson, 1993, p. 49) has drawn charges of tautology (Akers, 1991; Geis, 2000; Reed and Yeager, 1996; Tittle, 1991).”
Evidence of Genetic and Environmental Effects On the Development of Low Self-Control (2009, background): “scale may not be as reliable and valid as is typically assumed (DeLisi, Hochstetler, & Murphy, 2003; Marcus, 2004).”
Something Old, Something New: A Preliminary Investigation of Hirschi’s Redefined Self‐Control (2007, background): “This failed linkage has been the subject of several past critiques of the general theory (see Akers, 1991 ; Taylor, 2001 ).”
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Levels of Self-Control and Delinquent Peer Affiliation (2009, background): “…theories in recent years, there is still a considerable amount of disagreement concerning the most reliable and valid way to measure selfcontrol (DeLisi, Hochstetler, & Murphy, 2003; Longshore, Stein, & Turner, 1998; Longshore, Turner, & Stein, 1996; Marcus, 2003, 2004; Piquero & Rosay, 1998).”
Self-Control, Moral Beliefs, and Criminal Activity (2006, background): “…found that moral beliefs was the only variable to be significant with all effects as predicted and that the total 2Even further, some theorists and researchers have been critical of the general theory on several fronts (see e.g., Akers 1991; Barlow 1991; Jones and Quisenberry 2004; Redmon 2003).”
Low Self-Control and Police Deviance: Applying Gottfredson and Hirschi’s General Theory to Officer Misconduct (2014, background): “, Akers, 1991; Marcus, 2004) have commented that tests of self-control theory using behavioral measures of low self-control are empirically tautological because the independent and dependent variable are both by-products of low self-control. With that said, Hirschi and Gottfredson (1993) state that ”
Digital Piracy: Assessing the Contributions of an Integrated Self‐Control Theory and Social Learning Theory Using Structural Equation Modeling (2006, background): “…remains relatively stable (Turner & Piquero, 2002) and suggests that self-control theory and social learning theory may be linked theoretically (Akers, 1985, 1991, 1998; Evans et al., 1997; Gottfredson & Hirschi, 1987, 1990) and empirically (Gibson & Wright, 2001; Higgins & Makin, 2004;…”
Genetic influences on the stability of low self-control: Results from a longitudinal sample of twins (2008, methodology): “Although there is disagreement over the best way to measure low self-control (DeLisi, Hochstetler, & Murphy, 2003;Longshore,Stein,TLongshore,Turner,S Marcus, 2004; Piquero & Rosay, 1998), the most widely-used measurement strategy has been the battery of questions developed by Grasmick et al. (1993”