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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Social Control Theory"”.
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Mitigating delinquency through academic intervention: an empirical test of social control theory
… the GEAR UP program, a partial test of Hirschi’s social control theory (1969) was conducted to investigate the effect of academic performance and social bonds on problem behavior. Rarely tested in at-risk, minority student groups, the adolescents sampled in this research attended schools zoned for …
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From mace to restricted movement: feminist social control theory and college women's fear of rape
This research utilizes feminist social control theory to explore college women's fear of crime, specifically rape. Elements within this analysis include: comparisons of males and females on their relative fear of crime in both stranger and acquaintance situations, an assessment of behavioral/social …
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The Longitudinal Association of Neighborhood Stress and Sexual Risk Behaviors and Outcomes among Black Adolescents: Main Effects and Theoretically-Informed Mediation
… stress stemming from exposure to physical and social decay, as well as violence and crime may be a critical risk factor for risky sexual behaviors among adolescents. The present study sought to: 1) characterize the prospective association of neighborhood stress with adolescent sexual risk …
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An assessment of the methods that are used to recruit college students into the Turkish Hezbollah.
… This study based on the assumptions that social networks and institutional structures are two main tools that are used effectively by the Turkish Hezbollah to recruit college educated students. In this sense, the researcher claims that Social Learning theory and Social Control Theories can …
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The Relationship between Involvement, Strain, and the Criminality of Fathers of At-Risk Children
Robert Agnew proposed a new version of strain theory in 1992. In this article, Agnew argued that strain is not only a result of the blocked opportunity to achieve goals as Merton had argued, but that strain also results from the removal of positively valued stimuli and the presence of negative …
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The Relationship between Attitudes toward Deviance and Deviant Behavior: The Influence of Science, Individualism, Social Bonds and Deviant Peers
… theories of deviance, namely Hirschi's (1969) social control theory and Sutherland's (1939) differential association theory. The sample for this analysis is 202 students from a large research university in Southwest Virginia. The findings of this research lend support to Sutherland's (1939) …
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Adolescent sexual behavior and early childbearing: Empirical tests of social control and strain theories
… suggested by two general theories of 'deviance', social control theory and strain theory, to explain race differences in these phenomena. Causal models are tested using panel data from the first two waves of the National Youth Survey for adolescent male and female sexual behavior, while panel data …
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An examination of the development of delinquency in middle childhood.
… adolescent delinquency and childhood deviance. Social control theory and social interactional theory were tested on two separate samples. The goal of Study 1 was to determine whether the variables associated with each theory were more predictive of adolescent delinquency rather than concurrent …
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Does religion matter? A test of classical theories of deviance on two different religious types
… uniquely examines two religious types and a control group of nonreligious respondents in relation to two classical theories of crime and deviant behavior. The first objective of this research is to determine whether a conventional religion, Methodism, deters crime and deviant behavior better …
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‘Return to roots’: an examination of the re-presentations of rurality within post-apocalyptic survival video games
… cultural criminology foundation and elements of social control theory (Hirschi, 1969). Nine video games were examined or their setting; conflict; rural culture/stereotypes; and social structures using content analysis and coding frames. Results that PAS video games provide mixed views of rural …
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Y2000 Alcohol and Drug Survey: An Examination of University of North Dakota Students
… examining the predictive power of Hirschi’s social control theory in response to collegiate substance use. This research will provide a profile of student activities and beliefs associated with use or non-use, as well as the prevalence of use of alcohol, tobacco and drugs.</p> <p>Three focus …
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Exploring the impact of school connectedness on student retention in a South Texas magnet high school
… in student retention. Framed by Hirschi’s (2017) Social Control Theory and Ryan and Deci’s (2022) Self-Determination Theory – specifically Organismic Integration and Relationship Motivation Theory – the study examines how belonging, support, and relationships shape students’ decisions to remain …
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American Indian Adolescents Access to and Involvement in In-School Extracurricular Activities in Relation To Substance Use Frequency and Risk Behaviors
… and looked at it through the lens of Hirschi's Social Control Theory and the protective model of resilience. Hirschi's theory states that deviance is caused by a lack of a bond to society and can possibly be prevented by (a) attachment, (b) commitment, (c) involvement, and (d) belief (Hirschi, …
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Digital and social media: the panacea of transformative engagement with young people; rhetoric or reality? Qualitative based research exploring police led digital and social media engagement with young people in Nottinghamshire
… that is shaped by austerity. Digital and Social Media is seen as offering immense potential to deliver enhanced participation at a fraction of the cost of traditional engagement, but there is a distinct lack of empirical research associated with the police use of digital and social media …
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Jugenddelinquenz im interethnischen Vergleich : Erklärungsmöglichkeiten delinquenten Verhaltens einheimischer und immigrierter Jugendlicher
… from ethnic minority groups and compares the social correlates of delinquent behaviour in these ethnic groups. The aim of this analysis is to prove the generality of theories across ethnic boundaries explaining delinquency, and to identify certain factors of individual ethnic groups which …
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Hate Managers and Where They Target: An Analysis of Hate Crime as Hate Group Self-Help
… considerations raised by Routine Activity and Social Control theorists as well as current hate crime literature to frame my concept of the hate manager, an agent of social control that utilizes hate crimes as a means of enacting extralegal self-help for hate groups. I explore the relationship …
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Impact of Schools' Social Bonding on Chronic Truancy: Perceptions of Middle School Principals
… This study explored the relationship of schools’ social bonding opportunities and principals’ perceptions of students’ social bond on rates of chronic truancy in middle schools. Chronic truancy was defined as 10 or more absences reported to the Indiana Department of Education during the 2006-2007 …
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Involvement in Sports and Engagement in Delinquency: An Examination of Hirschi's Social Bond Theory.
… participation in delinquency. One criminological theory that would support this hypothesis is Travis Hirschi's social bond theory. The involvement element of that theory proposes that engaging juveniles in non-delinquent activities reduces engagement in delinquency. However, the relationship …