TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - How robust is the moderating effect of extremist beliefs on the relationship between self-control and violent extremism?
JO  - Crime and delinquency
A1  - Pauwels, Lieven J. R.
A1  - Svensson, Robert
SP  - 1000
EP  - 1016
VL  - 63
IS  - 8
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0011-1287
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011128716687757
ID  - ref1
ER  -