Gender, Age, and Crime/Deviance: A Challenge to Self-Control Theory

By C. R. Tittle, D. Ward, Harold G. Grasmick. 2003

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Subfields: Epidemiology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Epidemiology

1. C. Chapple
2. B. Benda
3. C. R. Tittle
4. N. Cheung
5. Zahra Shekarkhar
6. Y. Cheung
7. C. Gibson
8. Jacob T. N. Young

In Sociology and Political Science

1. C. Chapple
2. Greg Pogarsky
3. B. Benda
4. C. R. Tittle
5. N. Cheung
6. Y. Cheung
7. Zahra Shekarkhar
8. C. Gibson

Citations in the corpus

• Low Self-Control, Deviant Peer Associations, and Juvenile Cyberdeviance (2012, unknown): “Males were more likely to pirate software.”
• Gender Differences in Impulsivity (2007, background): “For instance, several studies have found that girls have higher mean levels of self-control (Burton et al., 1998; Hayslett-McCall & Bernard, 2002; LaGrange & Silverman, 1999; Tittle et al., 2003).”
• maternal characteristics, parenting, and adolescent sexual behavior: the role of self-control (2004, background): “2003 ), few studies investigated whether self-control mediates the effect of parental behavior on adolescent deviance.”
• Self-control Depletion and the General Theory of Crime (2006, background): “urge ongoing research about the generality of criminological self-control theory to continue (e.g., LaGrange and Silverman 1999; Tittle et al. 2003).”
• The Robustness of Self-Control in Relation to Form of Delinquency (2005, methodology): “The Grasmick (Grasmick et al., 1993) cognitive self-control scale has emerged as the most widely used alternative measure in the criminological literature (Tittle et al., 2003).”
• Self-Control, Social Factors, and Delinquency: A Test of The General Theory of Crime Among Adolescents in Hong Kong (2008, background): “... literature has been largely favorable to the general theory (Evans et al. 1997; Pratt and Cullen 2000), though some issues of the theory need further exploration, such as the explanatory power of the theory on white collar and organizational offending (Benson and Moore 1992; Reed and Yeager 1996”
• Refining control balance theory (2004, background): “First, the main variable from self-control theory (Gottfredson and Hirschi, 1990) has been brought into more prominence in the reformulation, in recognition of its empirical success (examples: Hirschi and Gottfredson, 2000; Pratt and Cullen, 2000; Vazsonyi et al., 2001; Turner and Piquero, 2002; Bar”
• Gender, Self-Control, and Offending Behaviors Among Latino Youth (2011, background): “However, some studies find the opposite—gender differences in crime become insignificant after taking into account self-control (Burton, Cullen, Evans, Alarid, & Dunaway, 1998; Tittle et al., 2003).”
• Christian Religiosity, Self-Control and Social Conformity (2006, unknown): “We also performed the same OLS regression using a factor-based general deviance index that was developed earlier by Tittle et al. (2003a) and which consists of seven self-report items that indicate whether an individual has committed a variety of criminal or deviant acts during the past five years…”