This book provides a sociological perspective on crime and criminal justice by treating social
structure and social inequality as central themes in the study of crime—and major factors in …

This article presents an integrated self-control/life-course theory of criminal behavior.
Coming in the form of 10 propositions, the broad message is that these two seemingly …

What exactly is self-control, and what life outcomes does it affect? What causes a person to
have high or low self-control to begin with? What effect does self-control have on crime and …

The present study primarily aimed to examine whether self-control serves as a moderator in
the associations between parent-adolescent relationships, including parental support and …

Adolescents have long been characterized as the stereotypical risk-takers, due to their
apparent heightened risk behavior (eg, delinquency, substance use). Hence, the raising of …

Purpose Association with delinquent peers is one of the most salient predictors of criminal
behavior. Little is known, however, about whether the criminogenic peer effect is conditioned …

Scholars have become increasingly interested in how social environments condition the
relationships between individual risk-factors and adolescent behavior. An appreciable …

Objectives: We draw from prior theory and research to advance theoretical arguments for
how self-control may operate as a collective concept in addition to being a powerful …

Objectives: This study extends theoretical arguments from situational action theory (SAT) by
focusing on the enduring effects of neighborhood context on individual criminal involvement …

Although self-control consistently emerges as one of the most robust correlates of delinquent
behavior, limited empirical attempts have been made to explore the contextual variability of …