RT Article
T1 Testing a psychosocial control theory of delinquency
JF Criminal justice and behavior
VO 17
IS 2
SP 215
OP 230
A1 Mak, Anita S.
LA English
YR 1990
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1640112928
AB This article reviews the theoretical and empirical grounds for incorporating aspects of personal control in Hirschi's (1969) social control theory of delinquency. A subsequent test of the resultant psychosocial control perspective, conducted with 793 Australian secondary-school students, indicates that it has greater explanatory power than Hirschi's model. Fifty-two percent of the variance in self-reported delinquency was accounted for by a combination of the social control variables of belief in the moral validity of the law, liking for school, and parental bonding; the personal control variables of impulse control and emotional empathy; and the background variables of sex, age, and broken home status
DO 10.1177/0093854890017002005