PURPOSE: The criminal career paradigm is a major research focus in criminology, and the
current state-of-the-art review explicates research published between 2000 and 2011 …

The research review synthesizes the knowledge base on risk and protective factors for
dating violence while highlighting its relevance to violence against college women. In …

" 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 …

Prior research has established that violence in dating relationships is a serious social
problem among adolescents and young adults. Exposure to violence during childhood has …

What exactly is self-control, and what life outcomes does it affect? What causes a person to
have high or low self-control to begin with? What effect does self-control have on crime and …

In the present paper a comprehensive review of studies of the association between
indicators of attachment or its proxy, and physical aggression or violence is presented. The …

We use 16 characterizations of crews, codes, and contexts to determine if offender
subcultures (code of the street, convict code, street and prison gangs) converge …

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 …

Studies that explore intergenerational effects of witnessing domestic violence during
childhood (“witnessing”) are lacking. We examined effects of witnessing on general health …

Abstract Purpose To evaluate Gottfredson and Hirschi's (1990) spuriousness thesis by
focusing on the virtue of alternative psychologically based constructs in explaining …