RT Article
T1 Self-Control and Social Bonds: A Combined Control Perspective on Juvenile Offending
JF Journal of quantitative criminology
VO 21
IS 4
SP 419
OP 437
A1 Longshore, Douglas
A1 Chang, Eunice
A1 Messina, Nena
A2 Chang, Eunice
A2 Messina, Nena
LA English
YR 2005
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764280245
AB With longitudinal data from a sample of 359 adolescent offenders, we tested three measures of social bonding (conventional moral belief, attachment, and commitment/involvement) and deviant peer association as outcomes of low self-control and as mediators of the effect of low self-control on juvenile offending. Low self-control was negatively related to each bonding measure, positively related to deviant peer association, and positively related to offending at follow-up. Its effect on offending was fully mediated by conventional moral belief and attachment. These results provide modest support for a combination of self-control and social bonding perspectives on juvenile offending.
K1 Juvenile offending
K1 Social bonds
K1 Self-control
DO 10.1007/s10940-005-7359-2