TY - JOUR
T1 - Self-control, violent offending, and homicide victimization
T2 - Assessing the general theory of crime
AU - Piquero, Alex R.
AU - MacDonald, John
AU - Dobrin, Adam
AU - Daigle, Leah E.
AU - Cullen, Francis T.
PY - 2005/3/1
Y1 - 2005/3/1
N2 - Criminologists have long recognized that offending and victimization share common ground. Using Gottfredson and Hirschi's general theory of crime, with its emphasis on self-control as a theoretical backdrop, we examine the extent to which self-control is related to both violent offending and homicide victimization. To examine this issue, we use 5-year post-parole data on violent offending and homicide victimization from a sample of parolees from the California Youth Authority. Using rare-events logistic regression models, results indicate that self-control is related to each outcome, but that other risk factors are also uniquely related to each outcome. The implications of this study for theory and future research are addressed.
AB - Criminologists have long recognized that offending and victimization share common ground. Using Gottfredson and Hirschi's general theory of crime, with its emphasis on self-control as a theoretical backdrop, we examine the extent to which self-control is related to both violent offending and homicide victimization. To examine this issue, we use 5-year post-parole data on violent offending and homicide victimization from a sample of parolees from the California Youth Authority. Using rare-events logistic regression models, results indicate that self-control is related to each outcome, but that other risk factors are also uniquely related to each outcome. The implications of this study for theory and future research are addressed.
KW - Homicide victimization
KW - Rare events
KW - Self-control
KW - Violent offending
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=16244403936&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10940-004-1787-2
DO - 10.1007/s10940-004-1787-2
M3 - Review Article
AN - SCOPUS:16244403936
VL - 21
SP - 55
EP - 71
JO - Journal of Quantitative Criminology
JF - Journal of Quantitative Criminology
SN - 0748-4518
IS - 1
ER -