dc.contributor.advisor | Sharp, Susan, | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Love, Sharon Redhawk. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-08-16T12:18:27Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-08-16T12:18:27Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2001 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11244/410 | |
dc.description.abstract | This study proposes a test of self-control theory using illicit sexual behaviors. Specifically this research tests the correlation of illicit sexual behaviors with crime/delinquency as they relate to measures of self-control, and opportunity. This research explores both the possibility of an interaction between self-control and opportunity as well as examines the concept of a displacement effect between crime/delinquency and illicit sexual behaviors. In addition, the relationship between crime/delinquency and illicit sexual behaviors with self-control, opportunity, age, gender and race are analyzed. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Data for this project were gathered in two survey periods conducted during the 1999--2000 academic year. Data used to test the theory as discussed above are drawn from a survey of 708 college students, age 18 and above, attending three southwestern universities, one rural, one commuter, and one Carnegie I research institution. Participation in the survey was voluntary. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | These analyses report illicit sexual behaviors are positively correlated with criminal/delinquent behaviors providing support for self-control theory. No displacement effect was found to exist further supporting self-control theory. However, for the interaction term of self-control and opportunity results are mixed in their support for the General Theory. Finally, when crime/delinquency and illicit sexual behaviors are regressed by race on self-control and opportunity there is a failure of self-control theory to account for the findings. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | x, 131 leaves ; | en_US |
dc.subject | College students United States Sexual behavior. | en_US |
dc.subject | Self-control. | en_US |
dc.subject | Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies. | en_US |
dc.subject | Sociology, Criminology and Penology. | en_US |
dc.subject | Criminals United States Sexual behavior. | en_US |
dc.subject | Paraphilias United States. | en_US |
dc.subject | Criminal behavior United States. | en_US |
dc.subject | Sociology, General. | en_US |
dc.title | Illicit sexual behaviors: A test of self-control theory. | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.thesis.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
dc.thesis.degreeDiscipline | Department of Sociology | en_US |
dc.note | Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-12, Section: A, page: 4342. | en_US |
dc.note | Major Professor: Susan Sharp. | en_US |
ou.identifier | (UMI)AAI3034893 | en_US |
ou.group | College of Arts and Sciences::Department of Sociology | |