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How Robust Is the Moderating Effect of Extremist Beliefs on the Relationship Between Self-Control and Violent Extremism?
- Source :
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Crime & Delinquency . Jul2017, Vol. 63 Issue 8, p1000-1016. 17p. - Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *EXTREMISTS
*SELF-control
*RADICALISM
*BELIEF & doubt
*ROBUST control
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00111287
- Volume :
- 63
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Crime & Delinquency
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 123532391
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0011128716687757