Completely out of control or the desire to be in complete control? how low self-control and the desire for control relate to corporate offending

Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 627-647

  Piquero, Nicole Leeper ^a   Schoepfer, Andrea ^b   Langton, Lynn ^c  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

corporate crime; desire for control; Gottfredson and Hirschi's general theory of crime; low self control

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956070111     PISSN: 00111287     EISSN: 1552387X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011128708325052     Document Type: Article

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