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Social Control Revisited: Examining Hirschi’s Re-Statement of the Relationship between Social- and Self-Control

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Gottfredson and Hirschi’s general theory of crime has generated an impressive array of theoretical and empirical research. Recently, Hirschi has redefined self-control as the tendency to consider the full range of potential costs of a particular act, and suggests that such inhibiting factors vary in both number and salience in how they relate to criminal activity. He also suggests that a person’s level of self control is influenced by their bonds to others. This study reports the results of an initial attempt to examine whether Hirschi’s recent restatement of the relationship between social control and self control can be used to accurately predict offending likelihood (i.e., drunk driving). Results suggest that Hirschi’s restatement of the relationship between social and self control is accurate and that social bonds impact offending likelihood through their impact on self control as measured using Hirschi’s new operationalization of self-control. Additional analyses suggest that the anticipated pathway between bonds and self-control only operates through Hirschi’s newly conceptualized measure of self control, but does not appear to operate through self control when measured using an alternative measure (i.e., the “Grasmick” attitudinal scale). Future theoretical and empirical directions are outlined.
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Bouffard, Jeff., Rice, Stephen. and Piquero, Alex. "Social Control Revisited: Examining Hirschi’s Re-Statement of the Relationship between Social- and Self-Control" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Atlanta, Georgia, Nov 14, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p201379_index.html>

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Bouffard, J. A., Rice, S. and Piquero, A. , 2007-11-14 "Social Control Revisited: Examining Hirschi’s Re-Statement of the Relationship between Social- and Self-Control" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Atlanta, Georgia <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p201379_index.html

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Abstract: Gottfredson and Hirschi’s general theory of crime has generated an impressive array of theoretical and empirical research. Recently, Hirschi has redefined self-control as the tendency to consider the full range of potential costs of a particular act, and suggests that such inhibiting factors vary in both number and salience in how they relate to criminal activity. He also suggests that a person’s level of self control is influenced by their bonds to others. This study reports the results of an initial attempt to examine whether Hirschi’s recent restatement of the relationship between social control and self control can be used to accurately predict offending likelihood (i.e., drunk driving). Results suggest that Hirschi’s restatement of the relationship between social and self control is accurate and that social bonds impact offending likelihood through their impact on self control as measured using Hirschi’s new operationalization of self-control. Additional analyses suggest that the anticipated pathway between bonds and self-control only operates through Hirschi’s newly conceptualized measure of self control, but does not appear to operate through self control when measured using an alternative measure (i.e., the “Grasmick” attitudinal scale). Future theoretical and empirical directions are outlined.

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