Capacity for Self-Control and Individuals' Interest in Exercising Self-Control

Assessing stereotypes of adolescent rape

“…In this view, self-control varies across contexts and situations (Tittle, Ward, & Grasmick, 2004;Wikström & Treiber, 2007), and low sexual self-control may contribute to adolescent rape independent of self-control in non-sexual situations. Consistent with this thesis, studies of relatively small samples of juvenile sex offenders in treatment programs, detention centers, and probation departments have reported that adolescent sexual offenders were less able to control sexual urges than non-sexual offenders (Miner et al, 2010) and that sexual compulsivity and preoccupation increased the likelihood of sexual coercion (Knight & Sims-Knight, 2003, 2005.…”

The Influence of the Social Bond on Self-control at the Moment of Decision: Testing Hirschi’s Redefinition of Self-control

“…They found that this measure was related to offending likelihood, and that while correlated with the Grasmick et al (1993) attitudinal measure of self-control, it also outperformed this measure as a predictor of offending likelihood. In addition to validating their decisional self-control measure, Piquero and Bouffard (2007) argued that Hirschi's new definition afforded several important advancements, including that it provides a means to understand situational variations in criminal behavior by examining the costs identified by respondents in any given instance (also see Tittle et al 2004), that it attended to criticisms of tautology leveled against the General Theory (e.g., Akers 1991), that it resolved measurement issues related to the personality-based assessment of self-control that Hirschi has argued fails to adequately capture the concept, and that redefined self-control improved the breadth of the concept by including a wider range of costs, while also framing selfcontrol more contemporaneously (i.e., within the decision-making process itself). 3 These last two points are important because in the General Theory (Gottfredson and Hirschi 1990), only long-term costs were viewed as relevant to self-control, whereas the new definition recognized that those with low self-control will likely fail to consider the "full range" of consequences.…”

“…For example, Tittle et al (2004) focus on interest in exercising self-control, modeled as a situational input to offending, as being an important accompaniment to self-control capacity itself (see especially Tittle et al 2004, p.150; also see Wikström and Treiber's 2007 focus on executive capability and environmental/situational influences on self-control and crime). Hirschi's (2004) restatement would also appear to complement the thesis that events out of the ordinary-what Agnew (2006) refers to as "storylines"-increase the likelihood of crime because they temporarily alter individuals' background characteristics, such as bonds.…”

Self-control, gender, and deviance among Turkish university students

“…The theory had been used on very different kinds of deviance among various groups, for instance, adults (Tittle, Ward, & Grasmick, 2004), adolescents (Cauffman, Steinberg, & Piquero, 2005), adolescents in various Western countries (Vazsonyi et al, 2001), inmates or offenders (Piquero, MacDonald, Dobrin, Daigle, & Cullen, 2005), street kids (Baron, 2003), and university students (Higgins, 2004). The literature pointed out that low self-control had had a positive impact on deviance in the Western societies, regardless of types of research design, either cross-sectional or longitudinal.…”