The Person in Social Context: Family, Marital, School, Work, Leisure/Recreation, and Neighborhood

Procriminal attitudes, values, and beliefs suggest the standards that may be applied in personally mediated control. In assessing one’s own behavior, the standards may be favorable to crime or unfavorable to crime. Procriminal cognitions also include negative cognitive-emotional states of resentment and feeling mistreated. These too may result in self-management that is favorable to crime. When cognitions are highly favorable to crime, their influence on behavior may even become relatively automatic and not require effortful self-regulation.