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The Role Of Gender In Self-Control And Intimate Partner Violence, Laura Marie Gulledge
The Role Of Gender In Self-Control And Intimate Partner Violence, Laura Marie Gulledge
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This study focuses on the interrelationships between gender, self-control and intimate partner violence (IPV). The sample consists of 960 undergraduate and graduate university students who are currently in a dating relationship. A series of bivariate and multivariate analyses are used to: 1) determine if self-control and IPV vary across gender and 2) assess the effect of gender on the relationship between self-control and IPV. Overall, results provide partial support for Gottfredson and Hirschi’s (1990) general theory of crime. Self-control operated similarly on IPV for both males and females, supporting the gender-neutrality of their theory. However, the gender gap in crime, …
Self-Control, Attitudinal Beliefs, And White-Collar Crime Intentions, Melissa Anne Lugo
Self-Control, Attitudinal Beliefs, And White-Collar Crime Intentions, Melissa Anne Lugo
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Gottfredson and Hirschi's general theory of crime (1990) has received a great deal of empirical examination in the criminology, yet the application of this theory to white-collar crime offenders has not received a great deal of attention. Research that has been conducted in the realm of white-collar crime has yielded mixed support for low self-control in explaining such offenses (Simpson and Piquero, 2002; Reed and Yeager, 1996; Langton et al., 2006; Blickle, 2006). The current study seeks to supplement the literature by focusing not simply on the direct causal links between self-control and white-collar offending, but also exploring how attitudes …