On the relationships between gender, power control, self-control, and crime

Blackwell, Brenda; Piquero, Alex R.

doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2004.10.001

Cited by 75 publications

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“…High levels of self-control appear to play a similar role in decreasing future aggressive and delinquent behavior for boys and girls. Results of these analyses are consistent with the findings of Blackwell and Piquero (2005) and Nichols et al (2006) who suggested that the effects of low levels of self-control are similar for boys and girls. Because multigroup analyses do not show significant (p = .105) differences between boys and girls for the parameter estimates of the cross paths, the reciprocal effects for boys, as found in the separate analysis, may need to be replicated in studies including measurement of opportunities for deviant behavior (e.g., seeking someone to hang around with).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

Self-Control and Early Adolescent Antisocial Behavior

Kemp

Vermulst

Finkenauer³

et al. 2008

The Journal of Early Adolescence

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The article discusses a three-wave longitudinal study that investigates the relationship between self-control and aggressive and delinquent behavior of early adolescent boys and girls. The sample consists of 1,012 Dutch adolescents (mean age = 12.3) in their first year of secondary education. Structural equation modeling analyses reveal that high levels of self-control consistently decrease aggressive and delinquent behavior in the subsequent 6 months follow-up intervals. Results for the total sample do not support the hypothesis that self-control is influenced by previous levels of aggression or delinquency. For boys, the partial evidence found indicates reciprocal effects of self-control and delinquency.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

Self-Control and Early Adolescent Antisocial Behavior

Kemp

Vermulst

Finkenauer³

et al. 2008

The Journal of Early Adolescence

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“…In contrast, Blackwell and Piquero (2005) found, however, that the effect of parenting on self-control differed between boys and girls. This might indicate that boys and girls are differentially affected by parenting in the development of self-control, meaning that the mechanism leading to the development of self-control is not the same for boys and girls.…”

Section: Sex Differences In Indirect Pathways From Parenting To Delincontrasting

confidence: 57%

Sex differences in longitudinal pathways from parenting to delinquency

Janssen

Eichelsheim

Deković

et al. 2017

Eur J Crim Policy Res

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In the current study, we examined longitudinally whether boys and girls differed in pathways from parenting to delinquency. Longitudinal mediational models were tested for boys and girls separately in which three parenting dimensions (i.e., monitoring, limit setting, and the quality of the parent-adolescent relationship) were hypothesized to influence adolescents' level of self-control, delinquent attitudes, peer delinquency, and time spent in criminogenic settings, which in turn, were hypothesized to affect delinquency. Using data of 603 adolescents (11-17 years of age at T1) we found mean level differences between boys and girls in parental monitoring, parental limit-setting, self-control, delinquent attitudes, and peer delinquency. The results suggest furthermore that the model linking parenting to delinquency is similar for boys and girls. We found, however, that the indirect effect from the quality of the parent-adolescent relationship through self-control is stronger for girls than for boys.

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“…Finding the lack of a relationship between child victimization and self-control theory, for example, calls into question the influence of bad parenting. Others have also noted that the influence of parenting on self-control levels is debatable, either not occurring (Beaver, Wright, & Maume, 2008), or misspecified -not capturing the full story of what occurs in child-rearing (Blackwell & Piquero, 2005. Some have argued that a combination of parental influences and social factors such as peer pressure and school factors create self control levels (Meldrum, 2008).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Prior research and critiques of the theory (Blackwell & Piquero, 2005;Miller & Burack, 1993) was particularly critical of the treatment of gender in the original formulation of the theory, arguing that the framework presented socialization as occurring the same across boys and girls and noting that gendered socialization leads to gender differences in criminal, as well as victimization, outcomes. Hirschi (2004) has since updated self-control theory.…”

Section: Notesmentioning

confidence: 99%