Selection, stability, and spuriousness: testing Gottfredson and Hirschi's propositions to reinterpret street gangs in self-control perspective

Overlooked in the extensive literature on self-control theory are propositions with respect to street gangs. In Gottfredson and Hirschi's (1990) perspective, gangs are loose confederations of youth with low self-control and their criminological relevance is attributable to “politics and romance...

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Authors: Pyrooz, David C. (Author) ; Melde, Chris (Author) ; Meldrum, Ryan Charles (Author) ; Coffman, Donna L. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
In: Criminology
Year: 2021, Volume: 59, Issue: 2, Pages: 224-253
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Keywords:
Adolescents
Gang membership
multilevel mediation
Self-control theory
stabilized inverse propensity weighting
Structural Equation Modeling