| In their General Theory of Crime, Gottfredson and Hirschi (1990) attempt to explain a wide varietyof crime and behaviors analogous to crime using the concept of self-control. Another part of their generality assertion is that the concept of self-control can help explain the gender differences in offending and that it can be applied equally to the deviant behavior of males and females. Using a sample of 1,139 9th-11th graders from a rural college town, we compare the explanatory power of self-control in predicting the delinquency of boys and girls. |
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