Do birds of a feather really flock together?: friendships, self-control similarity and deviant behaviour
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-contro...
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Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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2017
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The British journal of criminology
Jahr: 2017, Band: 57, Heft: 5, Seiten: 1208-1229 |
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Zusammenfassung: | 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. |
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ISSN: | 1464-3529 |
DOI: | 10.1093/bjc/azw067 |