NCJ Number
123964
Journal
Criminal Justice and Behavior Volume: 17 Issue: 2 Dated: (June 1990) Pages: 215-230
Date Published
1990
Length
16 pages
Annotation
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.
Abstract
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. 5 tables, 2 notes, 41 references. (Publisher abstract)