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How robust is the moderating effect of extremist beliefs on the relationship between self-control and violent extremism?
Ghent University, Belgium.
Malmö högskola, Faculty of Health and Society (HS), Department of Criminology (KR).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6080-2780
2017 (English)In: Crime and delinquency, ISSN 0011-1287, E-ISSN 1552-387X, Vol. 63, no 8, p. 1000-1016Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

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.

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Sage Publications, 2017. Vol. 63, no 8, p. 1000-1016
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Situational Action Theory, violent extremism, self-control, extremist beliefs, interaction
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-4727DOI: 10.1177/0011128716687757ISI: 000403213600005Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85020683460Local ID: 23248OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-4727DiVA, id: diva2:1401561
Available from: 2020-02-28 Created: 2020-02-28 Last updated: 2024-06-17Bibliographically approved

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