Low self-control and coworker delinquency: A research note

✍ Scribed by Chris Gibson; John Wright

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 114 KB
• Volume: 29
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0047-2352
• DOI: 10.1016/s0047-2352(01)00111-8

✦ Synopsis

Since the publication of Gottfredson and Hirschi [A General Theory of Crime. Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press, 1990], a large amount of research has shown a link between low self-control and delinquency. Some research has revealed that low self-control has not been able to account for the strong effects of peer delinquency on delinquency. Criminological literature has, until recently, neglected the interactional relationship between low self-control and delinquent peers in predicting delinquency. This study used a sample of employed high school seniors to assess the interaction between low self-control and coworker delinquency on occupational delinquency. Regression analyses indicated that the interaction term was a strong predictor of occupational delinquency, even after controlling for several established predictors of delinquency.