Who Would ‘Purge’? Low Self-Control, Psychopathy, and Offending in the Absence of Legal Controls
The assumption that people are inherently self-interested and that legal controls are needed to prevent crime underlies several criminological perspectives. In the current study, this assumption is tested by having a sample of 500 U.S. adults report on the likelihood they would engage in criminal be...
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| Language: | English |
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2021
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Crime & delinquency
Year: 2021, Volume: 67, Issue: 10, Pages: 1582-1613 |
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