@article{ref1,
title="Testing a psychosocial control theory of delinquency",
journal="Criminal justice and behavior",
year="1990",
author="Mak, Anita S.",
volume="17",
number="2",
pages="215-230",
abstract="This article reviews the theoretical and empirical grounds for incorporating aspects of personal control in Hirschi's (1969) social control theory of delinquency. A subsequent test of the resultant psychosocial control perspective, conducted with 793 Australian secondary-school students, indicates that it has greater explanatory power than Hirschi's model. Fifty-two percent of the variance in self-reported delinquency was accounted for by a combination of the social control variables of belief in the moral validity of the law, liking for school, and parental bonding; the personal control variables of impulse control and emotional empathy; and the background variables of sex, age, and broken home status. Keywords: Juvenile justice<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0093-8548",
doi="10.1177/0093854890017002005",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093854890017002005"
}