Cybercrime, Differential Association, and Self-Control: Knowledge Transmission Through Online Social Learning

In an increasingly digital world, our social interactions are moving online. Differential association and learning theories suggest that we learn both moral definitions the how-to of crime from those associate with. this paper examine whether online or offline leads to more self-disclosed forms cyber-offending. Using a national sample 1,109 participants, find important correlates addition, predict lower self-control will interact with further increase likelihood Overall, self-control, individually as interaction, have large effect-size in predicting