Purpose This study aims to clarify the nexus between effective parenting practices, low self-
control, and anti-social behaviors in Gottfredson and Hirschi's General Theory of Crime …

" The best organized and most comprehensive theory textbook to use for both graduate and
undergraduate students. It provides historical context to the theories, and the authors make it …

The Internet has afforded people a multitude of opportunities to engage in crime and
deviance online. Despite recent research efforts the application of criminological theories to …

Criminological research has largely neglected the possibility that positive peer influence is a
potentially powerful source of social control. Quantitative methods tease out cause, effect …

Grasmick et al.'s Low Self-Control Scale (LSCS) is considered the gold-standard of self-
control measures due to the frequency of its use in criminology. The aim of the present study …

Gender's role in self-control measures has been largely neglected. Although studies show
that males have lower self-control than females, rarely have researchers questioned …

The Grasmick attitudinal scale of self-control (Grasmick, Tittle, Bursik, & Arneklev, Journal of
Research in Crime and Delinquency, 30, 5–29, 1993) is one of the more commonly used …

Academic dishonesty is an insidious problem that besets most tertiary institutions, where
considerable resources are expended to prevent and manage students' dishonest actions …

This study tests the effects of behavioral and cognitive measures of self-control on computer-
focused cyber deviance and cyber victimization with survey data from 1,036 adult …

Self-control has been consistently linked to antisocial behavior and though low self-control
makes delinquency more likely, neither the findings nor the theory suggests that low self …