Timothy Brezina
Biographic Data
| ID | 4198112 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Brezina |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Brezina |
| SIGNATURE | BREZINA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8587-3219 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 493 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Moral Disengagement, Lack of Guilt, and Offending-Related Exhilaration
The results of prior research point to substantial overlap between Sykes and Matza’s theory of neutralization and Bandura’s theory of moral disengagement. These theories appear to describe the same cognitive processes of moral neutralization. As a result, Bandura’s theory has been described by some scholars as redundant with classic neutralization theory. In fact, Bandura’s theory is relatively complex. According to Bandura, moral neutralization …
Provisioning, Self-Efficacy, and Women's Economic Crime: A Quantitative Examination
Criminal achievement, criminal self-efficacy, and the criminology of Carlo Morselli: Suggestions for continuing and extending a fruitful line of inquiry
The unique scholarship of Carlo Morselli fuelled interest in criminal networks, entrepreneurship, and achievement. In this paper, we summarise Morselli’s contributions to the scholarship on criminal achievement, with special attention to the subjective aspects of such achievement. We show how Morselli’s work ignited interest in the novel concept of criminal self-efficacy and we offer a number of suggestions for continuing and extending this impor…
General Strain Theory
Social Support, Loyalty to Delinquent Peers, and Offending: An Elaboration and Test of the Differential Social Support Hypothesis
While most research focuses on the positive effects of social support on adolescent development, Cullen hypothesizes that social support may promote crime and delinquency under certain conditions. Specifically, when social support is derived from deviant sources, it may promote offending behavior. In this study, we test an elaborated version of this "differential social support" hypothesis. The results indicate that, among adolescents who associa…
Homeless youth, strain, and justice system involvement: An application of general strain theory
Prison Will Either Make Ya or Break Ya: Punishment, Deterrence, and the Criminal Lifestyle
Although a prison sentence is often considered to be among the worst punishments that the state can provide, previous research indicates that offenders do not necessarily share this view. Some inmates, for example, adjust to prison life with relative ease, do not view their time in prison as severe punishment, and may even prefer prison to alternative sanctions such as boot camp or probation. To help explain such views, we point to the utility of…
With God on my side: The paradoxical relationship between religious belief and criminality among hardcore street offenders
Research has found that many street offenders anticipate an early death, making them less prone to delay gratification, more likely to discount the future costs of crime, and thus more likely to offend. Ironically, many such offenders also hold strong religious convictions, including those related to the punitive afterlife consequences of offending. To reconcile these findings, we interviewed 48 active street offenders to determine their expectat…
Might Not Be a Tomorrow”: A Multimethods Approach to Anticipated Early Death and Youth Crime
Several researchers point to the anticipation of early death, or a sense of “futurelessness,” as a contributing factor to youth crime. It is argued that young people who perceive a high probability of early death may have little reason to delay gratification for the promise of future benefits, as the future itself is discounted. Consequently, these young people tend to pursue high‐risk behaviors associated with immediate rewards, which include cr…
False News Reports, Folk Devils, and the Role of Public Officials: Notes on the Social Construction of Law and Order in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, rescue and evacuation efforts were slowed by rumors of extreme violence in the flooded city of New Orleans, including reports of rampant murder, systematic rape, and gangs of armed thugs taking control. Moreover, public officials solidified these rumors by presenting them as fact to reporters. In this article, we examine the contribution of public officials to false news reports. Drawing on the soc…
What Went Wrong in New Orleans? An Examination of the Welfare Dependency Explanation
The impact of Hurricane Katrina was especially dramatic in New Orleans, where catastrophic flooding threatened the lives of thousands of residents who did not or could not evacuate before the storm. To explain the large number of residents who did not evacuate in time, some commentators blame a lack of government aid and assistance for the poor while others fault an excessive dependence of the poor on government. Welfare dependency theorists, in …
Moral Beliefs, Isolation from Peers, and Abstention from Delinquency
Criminological research has established that the vast majority of young people engage in some level of delinquency and drug use during the period of adolescence. Thus young people who completely refrain from delinquency and drug use are atypical and, as such, are deserving of scientific scrutiny. Perhaps because they have been impressed by the statistical abnormality of delinquency abstention, some researchers have explained this behavior in term…
Growing Up Too Soon: Parental Status, Concern for Youth, and Attitudes Toward Sexual Morality
Many scholars argue that the experience of parenting is likely to generate unique concerns regarding youth deviance and sexual morality. Parents, it is argued, are widely regarded as purveyors of social norms, are expected to be a force for law and order, and thus have a special interest in the maintenance of traditional moral boundaries. Yet, unexpectedly, previous studies in this area have failed to detect a parental status effect, with parents…
The Code of the Street: A Quantitative Assessment of Elijah Anderson’s Subculture of Violence Thesis and Its Contribution to Youth Violence Research
Based on extensive field research, Elijah Anderson argues that the behavior of many youths is influenced by a street culture or “code” that prescribes violent reactions to interpersonal attacks and shows of disrespect. Although Anderson’s account has been well received by the criminological community, questions remain about the validity and generality of his findings. To address these issues, the authors review other (mostly quantitative) studies…
Devils in Disguise: The Contribution of Positive Labeling to 'Sneaky Thrills' Delinquency
Delinquency theorists have traditionally focused on the criminogenic effects of negative labels and, in general, have argued that the negative labeling of delinquent youth may invoke a self-fulfilling prophecy and thereby encourage further (secondary) delinquency. In this paper, we argue that labeling theorists have largely ignored the potential crime-facilitating effects of positive labeling. Drawing on the relevant delinquency literature, we ar…
Social Deviance: Testing a General Theory
Part I: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Study of Deviant Behavior. 1. A Theory of Deviant Behavior. 2. Method. Part II: Deviant Behavior in Adolescence. 3. An Elaboration Strategy for the Study of Deviant Behavior. 4. Gender as a Moderator in Explanations of Adolescent Deviance. 5. Race/Ethnicity as a Moderator in Explanations of Adolescent Deviance. Part III: Deviant Behavior from Adolescence to Young Adulthood. 6. The Elaborate…
Strain, Personality Traits, and Delinquency: Extending General Strain Theory
Although Agnew's (1992) general strain theory (GST) has secured a fair degree of support since its introduction, researchers have had trouble explaining why some individuals are more likely than others to react to strain with delinquency. This study uses data from the National Survey of Children to address this issue. Drawing on Agnew (1997) and the psychological research on personality traits, it is predicted that juveniles high in negative emot…
Testing Moffitt's Account of Adolescence‐limited Delinquency
Much of the research testing Moffitt's taxonomy of antisocial behavior has concentrated on life‐course‐persistent as opposed to adolescence‐limited offending. For Moffitt, adolescence‐limited delinquency occurs near puberty as a function of factors endemic to the peer social context of adolescence, including the realization that adolescents are physically mature enough to engage in adult‐like behaviors, but are forbidden to engage in such acts be…
Are Deviants Different from the Rest of Us? Using Student Accounts of Academic Cheating to Explore a Popular Myth
This paper outlines a useful classroom exercise designed to facilitate a critical examination of the above myth and to enhance student appreciation of a sociological perspective. The exercise is mainly designed for use in deviance and criminology courses, but may be helpful in any course, or course section, where motives for offending are the focus of study. In particular, students are asked to consider their personal involvement in academic chea…
Teenage Violence Toward Parents as an Adaptation to Family Strain: Evidence from a National Survey of Male Adolescents
Certain strain and social learning theorists contend that child-to-parent violence represents a functional response to family adversity (or strain). In particular, these theorists suggest that child-to-parent aggression can be understood partly as an attempt to cope with negative treatment by parents or other family members. Furthermore, violent responses may work for children, allowing them to terminate such treatment. In this study, longitudina…
Adolescent Maltreatment and Delinquency: The Question of Intervening Processes
A substantial body of research indicates that adolescent maltreatment, like child maltreatment, is associated with elevated levels of delinquency. Criminologists typically account for this relationship by invoking one of three dominant frameworks in criminological theory: “Social control” theorists contend that adolescent maltreatment disrupts important delinquency-inhibiting ties; “social learning” theorists emphasize the deviant values and patt…
Relational Problems with Peers, Gender, and Delinquency
Although there is some evidence to suggest that classic strain theory is applicable to both male and female delinquency, several theorists have argued that a distinct version of strain theory may be required to explain delinquency among females. In particular, whereas male deviance tends to be generated by classic (or economic) strain, female deviance tends to be generated by strain occurring in interpersonal relations. This study attempts to tes…
Teaching Inequality: A Simple Counterfactual Exercise
L'A. montre que les inegalites sociales demeurent une preoccupation au coeur de la sociologie. En meme temps il souligne la difficulte liee a leur enseignement. Il presente les strategies pedagogiques mises en place pour pallier a cette difficulte comme l'utilisation de jeux de simulation ou les individus sont plus ou moins avantages, jeux qui refletent la situation sociale reelle. L'A. estime que les exercices qui se limitent a souligner les bar…
Adapting to Strain: An Examination of Delinquent Coping Responses
Strain theories have conceptualized delinquency as a form of adaptive, problem‐solving behavior, usually committed in response to problems involving frustrating and undesirable social environments. The most recent version of strain theory, Agnew's general strain theory, provides the most complete formulation of this argument by suggesting that delinquent behavior enables adolescents to cope with the socioemotional problems generated by negative s…
Strain, Personality Traits, and Delinquency: Extending General Strain Theory
Although Agnew's (1992) general strain theory (GST) has secured a fair degree of support since its introduction, researchers have had trouble explaining why some individuals are more likely than others to react to strain with delinquency. This study uses data from the National Survey of Children to address this issue. Drawing on Agnew (1997) and the psychological research on personality traits, it is predicted that juveniles high in negative emot…
Adapting to Strain: An Examination of Delinquent Coping Responses
Strain theories have conceptualized delinquency as a form of adaptive, problem‐solving behavior, usually committed in response to problems involving frustrating and undesirable social environments. The most recent version of strain theory, Agnew's general strain theory, provides the most complete formulation of this argument by suggesting that delinquent behavior enables adolescents to cope with the socioemotional problems generated by negative s…
Relational Problems with Peers, Gender, and Delinquency
Although there is some evidence to suggest that classic strain theory is applicable to both male and female delinquency, several theorists have argued that a distinct version of strain theory may be required to explain delinquency among females. In particular, whereas male deviance tends to be generated by classic (or economic) strain, female deviance tends to be generated by strain occurring in interpersonal relations. This study attempts to tes…
Might Not Be a Tomorrow”: A Multimethods Approach to Anticipated Early Death and Youth Crime
Several researchers point to the anticipation of early death, or a sense of “futurelessness,” as a contributing factor to youth crime. It is argued that young people who perceive a high probability of early death may have little reason to delay gratification for the promise of future benefits, as the future itself is discounted. Consequently, these young people tend to pursue high‐risk behaviors associated with immediate rewards, which include cr…
Testing Moffitt's Account of Adolescence‐limited Delinquency
Much of the research testing Moffitt's taxonomy of antisocial behavior has concentrated on life‐course‐persistent as opposed to adolescence‐limited offending. For Moffitt, adolescence‐limited delinquency occurs near puberty as a function of factors endemic to the peer social context of adolescence, including the realization that adolescents are physically mature enough to engage in adult‐like behaviors, but are forbidden to engage in such acts be…
Teenage Violence Toward Parents as an Adaptation to Family Strain: Evidence from a National Survey of Male Adolescents
Certain strain and social learning theorists contend that child-to-parent violence represents a functional response to family adversity (or strain). In particular, these theorists suggest that child-to-parent aggression can be understood partly as an attempt to cope with negative treatment by parents or other family members. Furthermore, violent responses may work for children, allowing them to terminate such treatment. In this study, longitudina…
With God on my side: The paradoxical relationship between religious belief and criminality among hardcore street offenders
Research has found that many street offenders anticipate an early death, making them less prone to delay gratification, more likely to discount the future costs of crime, and thus more likely to offend. Ironically, many such offenders also hold strong religious convictions, including those related to the punitive afterlife consequences of offending. To reconcile these findings, we interviewed 48 active street offenders to determine their expectat…
Moral Beliefs, Isolation from Peers, and Abstention from Delinquency
Criminological research has established that the vast majority of young people engage in some level of delinquency and drug use during the period of adolescence. Thus young people who completely refrain from delinquency and drug use are atypical and, as such, are deserving of scientific scrutiny. Perhaps because they have been impressed by the statistical abnormality of delinquency abstention, some researchers have explained this behavior in term…
Social Support, Loyalty to Delinquent Peers, and Offending: An Elaboration and Test of the Differential Social Support Hypothesis
While most research focuses on the positive effects of social support on adolescent development, Cullen hypothesizes that social support may promote crime and delinquency under certain conditions. Specifically, when social support is derived from deviant sources, it may promote offending behavior. In this study, we test an elaborated version of this "differential social support" hypothesis. The results indicate that, among adolescents who associa…
Homeless youth, strain, and justice system involvement: An application of general strain theory
Teaching Inequality: A Simple Counterfactual Exercise
L'A. montre que les inegalites sociales demeurent une preoccupation au coeur de la sociologie. En meme temps il souligne la difficulte liee a leur enseignement. Il presente les strategies pedagogiques mises en place pour pallier a cette difficulte comme l'utilisation de jeux de simulation ou les individus sont plus ou moins avantages, jeux qui refletent la situation sociale reelle. L'A. estime que les exercices qui se limitent a souligner les bar…
Prison Will Either Make Ya or Break Ya: Punishment, Deterrence, and the Criminal Lifestyle
Although a prison sentence is often considered to be among the worst punishments that the state can provide, previous research indicates that offenders do not necessarily share this view. Some inmates, for example, adjust to prison life with relative ease, do not view their time in prison as severe punishment, and may even prefer prison to alternative sanctions such as boot camp or probation. To help explain such views, we point to the utility of…
Are Deviants Different from the Rest of Us? Using Student Accounts of Academic Cheating to Explore a Popular Myth
This paper outlines a useful classroom exercise designed to facilitate a critical examination of the above myth and to enhance student appreciation of a sociological perspective. The exercise is mainly designed for use in deviance and criminology courses, but may be helpful in any course, or course section, where motives for offending are the focus of study. In particular, students are asked to consider their personal involvement in academic chea…
What Went Wrong in New Orleans? An Examination of the Welfare Dependency Explanation
The impact of Hurricane Katrina was especially dramatic in New Orleans, where catastrophic flooding threatened the lives of thousands of residents who did not or could not evacuate before the storm. To explain the large number of residents who did not evacuate in time, some commentators blame a lack of government aid and assistance for the poor while others fault an excessive dependence of the poor on government. Welfare dependency theorists, in …
Devils in Disguise: The Contribution of Positive Labeling to 'Sneaky Thrills' Delinquency
Delinquency theorists have traditionally focused on the criminogenic effects of negative labels and, in general, have argued that the negative labeling of delinquent youth may invoke a self-fulfilling prophecy and thereby encourage further (secondary) delinquency. In this paper, we argue that labeling theorists have largely ignored the potential crime-facilitating effects of positive labeling. Drawing on the relevant delinquency literature, we ar…
Criminal achievement, criminal self-efficacy, and the criminology of Carlo Morselli: Suggestions for continuing and extending a fruitful line of inquiry
The unique scholarship of Carlo Morselli fuelled interest in criminal networks, entrepreneurship, and achievement. In this paper, we summarise Morselli’s contributions to the scholarship on criminal achievement, with special attention to the subjective aspects of such achievement. We show how Morselli’s work ignited interest in the novel concept of criminal self-efficacy and we offer a number of suggestions for continuing and extending this impor…
False News Reports, Folk Devils, and the Role of Public Officials: Notes on the Social Construction of Law and Order in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, rescue and evacuation efforts were slowed by rumors of extreme violence in the flooded city of New Orleans, including reports of rampant murder, systematic rape, and gangs of armed thugs taking control. Moreover, public officials solidified these rumors by presenting them as fact to reporters. In this article, we examine the contribution of public officials to false news reports. Drawing on the soc…
Teaching Inequality: A Simple Counterfactual Exercise
L'A. montre que les inegalites sociales demeurent une preoccupation au coeur de la sociologie. En meme temps il souligne la difficulte liee a leur enseignement. Il presente les strategies pedagogiques mises en place pour pallier a cette difficulte comme l'utilisation de jeux de simulation ou les individus sont plus ou moins avantages, jeux qui refletent la situation sociale reelle. L'A. estime que les exercices qui se limitent a souligner les bar…
Adapting to Strain: An Examination of Delinquent Coping Responses
Strain theories have conceptualized delinquency as a form of adaptive, problem‐solving behavior, usually committed in response to problems involving frustrating and undesirable social environments. The most recent version of strain theory, Agnew's general strain theory, provides the most complete formulation of this argument by suggesting that delinquent behavior enables adolescents to cope with the socioemotional problems generated by negative s…
Relational Problems with Peers, Gender, and Delinquency
Although there is some evidence to suggest that classic strain theory is applicable to both male and female delinquency, several theorists have argued that a distinct version of strain theory may be required to explain delinquency among females. In particular, whereas male deviance tends to be generated by classic (or economic) strain, female deviance tends to be generated by strain occurring in interpersonal relations. This study attempts to tes…
Adolescent Maltreatment and Delinquency: The Question of Intervening Processes
A substantial body of research indicates that adolescent maltreatment, like child maltreatment, is associated with elevated levels of delinquency. Criminologists typically account for this relationship by invoking one of three dominant frameworks in criminological theory: “Social control” theorists contend that adolescent maltreatment disrupts important delinquency-inhibiting ties; “social learning” theorists emphasize the deviant values and patt…
Teenage Violence Toward Parents as an Adaptation to Family Strain: Evidence from a National Survey of Male Adolescents
Certain strain and social learning theorists contend that child-to-parent violence represents a functional response to family adversity (or strain). In particular, these theorists suggest that child-to-parent aggression can be understood partly as an attempt to cope with negative treatment by parents or other family members. Furthermore, violent responses may work for children, allowing them to terminate such treatment. In this study, longitudina…
Are Deviants Different from the Rest of Us? Using Student Accounts of Academic Cheating to Explore a Popular Myth
This paper outlines a useful classroom exercise designed to facilitate a critical examination of the above myth and to enhance student appreciation of a sociological perspective. The exercise is mainly designed for use in deviance and criminology courses, but may be helpful in any course, or course section, where motives for offending are the focus of study. In particular, students are asked to consider their personal involvement in academic chea…
Testing Moffitt's Account of Adolescence‐limited Delinquency
Much of the research testing Moffitt's taxonomy of antisocial behavior has concentrated on life‐course‐persistent as opposed to adolescence‐limited offending. For Moffitt, adolescence‐limited delinquency occurs near puberty as a function of factors endemic to the peer social context of adolescence, including the realization that adolescents are physically mature enough to engage in adult‐like behaviors, but are forbidden to engage in such acts be…
Strain, Personality Traits, and Delinquency: Extending General Strain Theory
Although Agnew's (1992) general strain theory (GST) has secured a fair degree of support since its introduction, researchers have had trouble explaining why some individuals are more likely than others to react to strain with delinquency. This study uses data from the National Survey of Children to address this issue. Drawing on Agnew (1997) and the psychological research on personality traits, it is predicted that juveniles high in negative emot…
Social Deviance: Testing a General Theory
Part I: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Study of Deviant Behavior. 1. A Theory of Deviant Behavior. 2. Method. Part II: Deviant Behavior in Adolescence. 3. An Elaboration Strategy for the Study of Deviant Behavior. 4. Gender as a Moderator in Explanations of Adolescent Deviance. 5. Race/Ethnicity as a Moderator in Explanations of Adolescent Deviance. Part III: Deviant Behavior from Adolescence to Young Adulthood. 6. The Elaborate…
The Code of the Street: A Quantitative Assessment of Elijah Anderson’s Subculture of Violence Thesis and Its Contribution to Youth Violence Research
Based on extensive field research, Elijah Anderson argues that the behavior of many youths is influenced by a street culture or “code” that prescribes violent reactions to interpersonal attacks and shows of disrespect. Although Anderson’s account has been well received by the criminological community, questions remain about the validity and generality of his findings. To address these issues, the authors review other (mostly quantitative) studies…
Devils in Disguise: The Contribution of Positive Labeling to 'Sneaky Thrills' Delinquency
Delinquency theorists have traditionally focused on the criminogenic effects of negative labels and, in general, have argued that the negative labeling of delinquent youth may invoke a self-fulfilling prophecy and thereby encourage further (secondary) delinquency. In this paper, we argue that labeling theorists have largely ignored the potential crime-facilitating effects of positive labeling. Drawing on the relevant delinquency literature, we ar…
Growing Up Too Soon: Parental Status, Concern for Youth, and Attitudes Toward Sexual Morality
Many scholars argue that the experience of parenting is likely to generate unique concerns regarding youth deviance and sexual morality. Parents, it is argued, are widely regarded as purveyors of social norms, are expected to be a force for law and order, and thus have a special interest in the maintenance of traditional moral boundaries. Yet, unexpectedly, previous studies in this area have failed to detect a parental status effect, with parents…
Moral Beliefs, Isolation from Peers, and Abstention from Delinquency
Criminological research has established that the vast majority of young people engage in some level of delinquency and drug use during the period of adolescence. Thus young people who completely refrain from delinquency and drug use are atypical and, as such, are deserving of scientific scrutiny. Perhaps because they have been impressed by the statistical abnormality of delinquency abstention, some researchers have explained this behavior in term…
What Went Wrong in New Orleans? An Examination of the Welfare Dependency Explanation
The impact of Hurricane Katrina was especially dramatic in New Orleans, where catastrophic flooding threatened the lives of thousands of residents who did not or could not evacuate before the storm. To explain the large number of residents who did not evacuate in time, some commentators blame a lack of government aid and assistance for the poor while others fault an excessive dependence of the poor on government. Welfare dependency theorists, in …
Might Not Be a Tomorrow”: A Multimethods Approach to Anticipated Early Death and Youth Crime
Several researchers point to the anticipation of early death, or a sense of “futurelessness,” as a contributing factor to youth crime. It is argued that young people who perceive a high probability of early death may have little reason to delay gratification for the promise of future benefits, as the future itself is discounted. Consequently, these young people tend to pursue high‐risk behaviors associated with immediate rewards, which include cr…
False News Reports, Folk Devils, and the Role of Public Officials: Notes on the Social Construction of Law and Order in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, rescue and evacuation efforts were slowed by rumors of extreme violence in the flooded city of New Orleans, including reports of rampant murder, systematic rape, and gangs of armed thugs taking control. Moreover, public officials solidified these rumors by presenting them as fact to reporters. In this article, we examine the contribution of public officials to false news reports. Drawing on the soc…
With God on my side: The paradoxical relationship between religious belief and criminality among hardcore street offenders
Research has found that many street offenders anticipate an early death, making them less prone to delay gratification, more likely to discount the future costs of crime, and thus more likely to offend. Ironically, many such offenders also hold strong religious convictions, including those related to the punitive afterlife consequences of offending. To reconcile these findings, we interviewed 48 active street offenders to determine their expectat…
Prison Will Either Make Ya or Break Ya: Punishment, Deterrence, and the Criminal Lifestyle
Although a prison sentence is often considered to be among the worst punishments that the state can provide, previous research indicates that offenders do not necessarily share this view. Some inmates, for example, adjust to prison life with relative ease, do not view their time in prison as severe punishment, and may even prefer prison to alternative sanctions such as boot camp or probation. To help explain such views, we point to the utility of…
Homeless youth, strain, and justice system involvement: An application of general strain theory
Social Support, Loyalty to Delinquent Peers, and Offending: An Elaboration and Test of the Differential Social Support Hypothesis
While most research focuses on the positive effects of social support on adolescent development, Cullen hypothesizes that social support may promote crime and delinquency under certain conditions. Specifically, when social support is derived from deviant sources, it may promote offending behavior. In this study, we test an elaborated version of this "differential social support" hypothesis. The results indicate that, among adolescents who associa…
General Strain Theory
Criminal achievement, criminal self-efficacy, and the criminology of Carlo Morselli: Suggestions for continuing and extending a fruitful line of inquiry
The unique scholarship of Carlo Morselli fuelled interest in criminal networks, entrepreneurship, and achievement. In this paper, we summarise Morselli’s contributions to the scholarship on criminal achievement, with special attention to the subjective aspects of such achievement. We show how Morselli’s work ignited interest in the novel concept of criminal self-efficacy and we offer a number of suggestions for continuing and extending this impor…
Provisioning, Self-Efficacy, and Women's Economic Crime: A Quantitative Examination
Moral Disengagement, Lack of Guilt, and Offending-Related Exhilaration
The results of prior research point to substantial overlap between Sykes and Matza’s theory of neutralization and Bandura’s theory of moral disengagement. These theories appear to describe the same cognitive processes of moral neutralization. As a result, Bandura’s theory has been described by some scholars as redundant with classic neutralization theory. In fact, Bandura’s theory is relatively complex. According to Bandura, moral neutralization …
Psychology (22 works) · Social Psychology (21 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (19 works) · Criminology (18 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (9 works) · Juvenile delinquency (9 works) · Political science (9 works)