Citation

Flexon JL, Meldrum RC, Piquero AR. J. Interpers. Violence 2016; 31(11): 2052-2076.

Affiliation

University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0886260515572471

PMID

25711616

Abstract

The overlap between victimization and offending is well documented. Yet, there have been fewer investigations of the reasons underlying this relationship. One possible, but understudied, explanation lies with Gottfredson and Hirschi's arguments regarding self-control. The current study adds to this line of inquiry by assessing whether low self-control accounts for the victim-offender overlap in a sample of young adults and whether self-control accounts for the observed overlap similarly across gender.

RESULTS from a series of bivariate probit regression models indicate that low self-control is positively related to both victimization and offending. However, only among males does low self-control account for a substantive portion of the victim-offender overlap. Limitations of the study and implications and directions for future research are discussed.

Language: en