- Authors
- Helmut Hirtenlehner Centre for Criminology, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
- Franziska KunzTechnische Universität Dresden, Institut für Politikwissenschaft
- title
- The interaction between self-control and morality in crime causation among older adults
- Please use the following URL when quoting:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-354859
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- European Journal of Criminology Erscheinungsort: London
Verlag: Sage
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Jahrgang: 13
Heft: 3
Seiten: 393-409
E-ISSN: 1741-2609 - publication_date
- 2016
- Abstract (EN)
- Situational Action Theory (SAT), a recently developed explanation of criminal conduct, is becoming increasingly studied. Hitherto, however, nearly all tests of the theory and its hypotheses have been based on samples of adolescents or young adults. Studies drawing on the older population have been missing so far. This work addresses the interplay of moral beliefs and the ability to exercise self-control in crime causation among respondents aged 50 years and over. In line with SAT and the results obtained previously for young people, our analyses show that self-control ability affects offending among older adults too, particularly when personal morality is weak.
- Other edition
- Link zum Artikel, der zuerst in der Zeitschrift 'European Journal of Criminology' erschienen ist.
DOI: 10.1177/1477370815623567 - Keywords (DE)
- Vergehen im späten Leben, Moral, Selbstbeherrschung, Situationshandlungstheorie
- Keywords (EN)
- Late-life offending, morality, self-control, Situational Action Theory
- Classification (DDC)
- 340
- Publishing house
- Sage, London
- version
- publizierte Version / Verlagsversion
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-354859
- Qucosa date of publication
- 24.09.2019
- Document type
- article
- Document language
- English
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