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The Many Measurements Of Self-Control: How Reoperationalized Self-Control Compares, Whitney Decamp, Nicholas W. Bakken
The Many Measurements Of Self-Control: How Reoperationalized Self-Control Compares, Whitney Decamp, Nicholas W. Bakken
Whitney DeCamp
Since Gottfredson and Hirschi’s ‘A General Theory of Crime’ was published in 1990, self-control has become a major focus in criminological theory and research and the issue of measuring self-control has been the topic of many debates. Much of this research has used Grasmick and colleagues’ 1993 attitudinal scale. In 2004, Hirschi provided a new definition for self-control designed to spur new measurements of the concept. Despite this effort, only Piquero and Bouffard (2007) have provided an in-depth attempt to measure the redefined concept. This study replicates the Piquero and Bouffard measurement and a traditional measure of self-control in order …