@article{ref1,
title="How robust is the moderating effect of extremist beliefs on the relationship between self-control and violent extremism?",
journal="Crime and delinquency",
year="2017",
author="Pauwels, Lieven J. R. and Svensson, Robert",
volume="63",
number="8",
pages="1000-1016",
abstract="The present research note studies the interaction between the ability to exercise self-control and extremist moral beliefs with regard to the explanation of violent extremism. Although some evidence exists for the interaction between moral beliefs and self-control in the explanation of adolescent offending, no previous study has studied this interaction effect in a survey of young adults and with regard to politically or religiously motivated violence. This study therefore extends the existing literature by testing a key proposition of Situational Action Theory. We use a large-scale web survey of young adults in Belgium. The results support the hypothesis that the effect of the ability to exercise self-control is conditional upon one's extremist beliefs. The results are stable across extremism-specific measures of extremist beliefs.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0011-1287",
doi="10.1177/0011128716687757",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011128716687757"
}