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- Title
ON THE ASSOCIATION AMONG SELF-CONTROL, CRIME, AND ANALOGOUS BEHAVIORS.
- Authors
Paternoster, Raymond; Brame, Robert
- Abstract
In a paper previously published in Criminology (Paternoster and Brame, 1998), we used data from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development to investigate the association between criminal activity and a set of so-called "analogous behaviors" (i.e., excessive drinking, smoking, gambling, involvement in accidents, etc.). Our reading of Gottfredson and Hirschi's (1990) self-control theory led us to hypothesize that both of these outcomes should depend on self-control. It seemed to us that the implication of this position is that self-control should explain any association that exists between involvement in criminal activity and involvement in analogous behaviors. Our analysis suggested that the association between criminal activity and analogous behaviors persisted even after conditioning on our measure of self-control. We drew the qualified conclusion that this result constitutes negative evidence for Gottfredson and Hirschi's self-control theory. In this paper, we reexamine the analytic framework on which we relied in our earlier work.
- Subjects
SELF-control; CONTROL (Psychology); CRIMINAL law; CRIME; CRIMINAL behavior; CRIMINOLOGY
- Publication
Criminology, 2000, Vol 38, Issue 3, p971
- ISSN
0011-1384
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1745-9125.2000.tb00913.x