PURPOSE: Although the relationship between personality and antisocial behaviors has
been widely examined and empirically supported in the psychological literature, relatively …

Self-control plays a significant role in positive youth development. Although numerous self-
control challenges occur during adolescence, some adolescents control themselves better …

Objectives Test the hypothesis that dispositional self-control and morality relate to criminal
decision making via different mental processing modes, a 'hot'affective mode and a …

Self-control theory (SCT), as a control theory, assumes that the pleasures gained from crime
are equally obvious and attractive to all. This study brings a consideration of crime as a …

Purpose Grounding our work within the larger gender and self-control literature, the purpose
of this paper is three-fold: to examine the relative effects of adverse childhood experiences …

Purpose The current study extends the literature on both Gottfredson and Hirschi's (1990)
self-control theory and adolescent police stops by exploring the role of low self-control in the …

Prior research has identified several individual, organizational, and community-level
correlates of police misconduct, but studies based on theoretical explanations have only …

Purpose Research has established that low self-control is significantly related to harmful
police behavior, but no study, of which we are aware, has investigated the relationship …

Purpose To assess the extent to which three well-validated measures of self-control are
assessing the same construct. Methods Two student samples (ns= 315 and 172) completed …

Objectives: This study explores the nexus between low self-control and legal cynicism
among a recent sample of at-risk youth while accounting for various features of direct and …