Yun Ilhong, Walsh Anthony
Department of Criminal Justice, Boise State University, 1910 University Drive, Boise, ID 83725-1955, USA.
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2011 May;55(3):445-59. doi: 10.1177/0306624X09358072. Epub 2010 Feb 24.
Gottfredson and Hirschi's general theory of crime has been widely tested. Yet one of their key hypotheses-the stability of self-control-has received little attention from researchers, and no known study has examined the applicability of the stability hypothesis in a non-Western context. Given Gottfredson and Hirschi's claim that their low self-control theory transcends cultural and national boundaries, we tested the hypothesis with a nationally representative sample of South Korean adolescents using 5-year panel data. Consistent with studies conducted in the United States, our results offer partial support for Gottfredson and Hirschi's stability hypothesis. We also provide comparative interpretations of our findings in the South Korean context.
戈特弗雷德森和赫希的犯罪一般理论已得到广泛检验。然而，他们的一个关键假设——自我控制的稳定性——却很少受到研究人员的关注，而且尚无已知研究考察过这一稳定性假设在非西方背景下的适用性。鉴于戈特弗雷德森和赫希声称他们的低自我控制理论超越了文化和国家界限，我们利用五年期面板数据，以韩国青少年的全国代表性样本对这一假设进行了检验。与在美国进行的研究一致，我们的结果为戈特弗雷德森和赫希的稳定性假设提供了部分支持。我们还在韩国背景下对我们的研究结果提供了比较性解读。
