RT Article
T1 Control balance behind bars: testing the generality of tittle’s theory among incarcerated men and women
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 62
IS 7
SP 925
OP 953
A1 Fox, Kathleen A.
A2 Nobles, Matt R.
A2 Lane, Jodi 1967-
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1576760650
AB The current study contributes to the small, but growing, body of literature testing Tittle’s control balance theory by offering a unique test of the theory’s ability to explain a wide variety of offending among a large sample of recently incarcerated jail inmates. Among the full sample of inmates, both control deficits and surpluses significantly increase the risk of offending. When men and women are examined separately, control deficits are non-significant while control surpluses continue to increase offending, and this effect does not significantly vary among men and women. Evidence from the interactive effects of control imbalance and self-control indicate that control surpluses and low self-control are also related to committing a wider variety of crimes.
K1 Control balance theory
K1 Offending variety
K1 Gender
K1 Jail inmates
K1 Theorie der Kontrollbalance
K1 Gefängnisinsassen
K1 Kontrolltheorie
K1 Tittle, Charles R.
DO 10.1177/0011128714551407