Books and Chapters
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Chapter: Self-Control, Homicide Offending, and Homicide Victimization by Ryan C., Meldrum, Peter S. Lehmann, Carter Hay, and Jacob Judd (Published in 2024)
This chapter, appearing in the Routledge Handbook of Homicide Studies (Edited by Kyle A. Burgason and Matt DeLisi) reviews theory and research on the association between self-control, homicide offending, and homicide victimization. While much attention has been devoted to investigating the link between deficits in self-control and a wide variety of delinquent, criminal, and violent behaviors, far less attention has been devoted to empirical investigations focused on homicide offending and victimization as outcomes, despite strong theoretical rationales. Given this, the chapter also highlights research linking proxies for low self-control to homicide offending and victimization. It concludes by providing recommendations for future researchers to advance this neglected but important area of scholarship related to the nexus between self-control and homicide. Book: Self-Control and Crime Over the Life-Course by Carter Hay and Ryan C. Meldrum (Published in 2015)
Dr. Carter Hay of Florida State University and I have written a book for Sage Publications that provides a current, interdisciplinary perspective on theory and research on self-control as it relates to delinquency, crime, and the criminal justice system. While much of the research within criminology has focused on testing Gottfredson and Hirschi's model of self-control developed in A General Theory of Crime, there are several perspectives outside of criminology that have received as much if not more attention, including those from the fields of neuroscience and psychology. The purpose of the book is to not only provide a comprehensive review of what research from these disparate disciplines has revealed about the causes and consequences of self-control, but to also develop an integrated framework for understanding self-control across the life-course that draws upon elements from the various models that have been developed. |