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- Title
DO BIRDS OF A FEATHER REALLY FLOCK TOGETHER? FRIENDSHIPS, SELF-CONTROL SIMILARITY AND DEVIANT BEHAVIOUR.
- Authors
BOMAN IV, JOHN H.
- Abstract
In addition to research consistently linking self-control to crime, a person’s level of self-control is hypothesized to be the root cause of why friendships form. Namely, people with low self-control should ‘flock together’ in highly deviant friendships, and, inversely, persons with high self-control should ‘flock together’ in non-deviant friendships. Using dyadic friendship data, this study examines the extent to which self-control similarity, termed self-control ‘homophily’, exists and what implications it carries for deviance. Using hierarchical linear modelling, results demonstrate that friends’ levels of self-control are dissimilar and fail to interact in relation to crime. Instead, differences in friends’ levels of self-control may be more strongly related to crime, failing to support Gottfredson and Hirschi’s hypothesis.
- Subjects
SELF-control; CRIME; DEVIANT behavior; SOCIAL adjustment; FRIENDSHIP
- Publication
British Journal of Criminology, 2017, Vol 57, Issue 5, p1208
- ISSN
0007-0955
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/bjc/azw067