Exploring the Link Between Low Self-Control and Violent Victimization Trajectories in Adolescents

Higgins, George E.; Jennings, Wesley G.; Tewksbury, Richard; Gibson, Chris L.

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“…First, findings from the current study confirm the work by Schreck and others (Schreck, 1999;Schreck et al, 2002;Higgins et al, 2010) violent victimization in the most structurally disadvantaged neighborhoods. This finding appears to be consistent with Raine's (2002) "social push" perspective.…”

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“…First, findings confirm work by others (Higgins, Jennings, Tewksbury, & Gibson, 2010;Schreck, 1999;Schreck , Wright, & Miller, 2002) showing that youth with lower self-control are at more risk for becoming victims of violence. This relationship remained after controlling for situational, behavioral, and lifestyle characteristics that are This document is a research report submitted to the U.S. Department of Justice.…”

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confidence: 81%

“…Employing various samples and methods, recent research by Schreck and others (e.g., Higgins et al, 2010;Schreck, Stewart, & Fisher, 2006;Stewart, Elifson, & Sterk, 2004) shows that those who possess lower self-control are at increased risk for violent victimization. This research has shown that low self-control influences violent victimization independent of lifestyles and other risk factors such as peers, indicating that the presence of self-control can independently make a situation safer while low self-control can worsen personal safety and one's possessions in even an otherwise innocuous situation (Schreck et al, 2002;Stewart et al, 2004).…”

Section: Self-control Lifestyles and Violent Victimizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although early research did focus on demographic characteristics as indicators of criminal victimization vulnerability (see Von Henting, 1941), it was not until the last decade that an increase in studies focused on individual traits as risk factors for violent victimization (Schreck, 1999;Schreck et al, 2002;Higgins et al, 2010). One of the first studies to investigate low selfcontrol and personal victimization was conducted by Schreck (1999).…”

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Unpacking the Influence of Neighborhood Context and Antisocial Propensity on Violent Victimization of Children and Adolescents in Chicago

Gibson¹

2012

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This research combines social disorganization and self-control theories to understand violent victimization among children and adolescents. In doing so, several research questions are investigated to explore the independent and interactive influences that neighborhood disadvantage and low self-control have on violent victimization risk.Data from the 9, 12, and 15-year old cohorts of the Longitudinal Cohort Study in the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN-LCS) were used in this study. Data analyzed were from self-reports of children, adolescents, and their primary caregivers during waves 1 and 2 of the longitudinal data collection effort. In addition, neighborhood structural characteristics from the U.S. Census were also analyzed.Results from a combination of hierarchical generalized linear models and multivariate logistic regression models with robust standard errors revealed that violent victimization did not significantly vary across neighborhoods, and independent of various behavioral and lifestyle choices made by children and adolescents, low self-control increased the risk for becoming a victim of violence. Additionally, choices made by them also influenced their risk of violent victimization; those who reported engaging in violent offending, spending more time in unstructured activities, and having more delinquent peers had a higher risk of being a victim of violence. Further analysis shows that the association between low self-control and violent victimization risk varies across levels of neighborhood concentrated disadvantage in which youth live; low self-control's influence in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods dissipated while it was amplified for those living in the least disadvantaged neighborhoods. Unstructured socializing with peers was the only factor that significantly influenced violent victimization risk across low, medium and high disadvantaged neighborhoods. Findings are consistent with a "social push" perspective, which suggests that disadvantaged environments provide social pressures that may override the influence of individual differences on vulnerability to violent victimization.Implications of this study's findings are discussed as they relate to policy, prevention and theory; while also setting forth a research agenda on neighborhoods, antisocial traits, and violent victimization risk for future research.

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Section: Self-control Lifestyles and Violent Victimizationmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Unpacking the Influence of Neighborhood Context and Antisocial Propensity on Violent Victimization of Children and Adolescents in Chicago

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2012

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“…As individuals mature, they shift from stimulus-response behavioural orientation to a rule-based cognitive orientation (Kendler et al 1969). Several studies (e.g., Hay and Forrest 2006;Higgins et al 2009;Vazsonyi and Jiskrova 2017) found that self-control ability significantly increases during childhood, but its level stabilises sometime between the ages of 8 and 10 years. Then, up to the age of 15, the majority of children show considerable stability in self-control (Hay and Forrest 2006).…”

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The role of self-control and regulatory foci in money-saving behaviours among children

2018

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The studies aimed to discover if it is possible to increase children's ability to defer consumption in favour of saving money by drawing attention to the importance of self-control and by inducing regulatory focus of promotion or prevention. The first study confirmed that economic behaviours of children are connected to their level of self-control. Next, in two experimental studies, self-control and regulatory focus were experimentally induced in 9-to 11-year-old children. The second study (n = 158) showed that self-control activation results in preference of saving over immediate consumption for boys but not for girls. The third study (n = 144) showed that promotion regulatory focus activation results in preference of saving over immediate consumption, while after the activation of prevention regulatory focus, children prefer immediate consumption. The results indicate that sole activation in children's thinking about the importance of self-control or about specific self-regulation motivations may influence saving behaviours. Nevertheless, due to the fact that males and females differ in self-control levels and in motivation for goal pursuit, inducing self-control or specific regulatory focus in children may have different effects on economic decisions, depending on a child's gender.

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Victim–Offender Overlap

Reingle¹

2014

The Encyclopedia of Theoretical Criminology

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The victim−offender overlap can be defined as the link between victimization and the perpetration of crime and delinquency. In other words, these behaviors appear to co‐occur within individuals across a variety of criminal behaviors (e.g., sex offenses, homicide, other violent crimes). The research literature strongly suggests that an overlap does exist and often cannot be explained through shared risk factors (e.g., demographics, lifestyle variables) for each behavior; however, the overlap is more persistent among some groups than others. This article discusses the empirical literature and criminological theory that has been adapted to explain the existence of the victim−offender overlap.

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Exploring the Link Between Low Self-Control and Violent Victimization Trajectories in Adolescents

Cited by 121 publications

References 42 publications

Unpacking the Influence of Neighborhood Context and Antisocial Propensity on Violent Victimization of Children and Adolescents in Chicago

Unpacking the Influence of Neighborhood Context and Antisocial Propensity on Violent Victimization of Children and Adolescents in Chicago

The role of self-control and regulatory foci in money-saving behaviours among children

Victim–Offender Overlap

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