The Individual and Joint Performance of Economic Preferences, Personality, and Self-Control in Predicting Criminal Behavior

Tim Friehe and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch ()
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Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch: Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
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No 7894, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from criminology. We find that economic preferences, personality traits, and self-control complement each other in predicting criminal behavior. The most significant predictors stem from all three disciplines: risk aversion, conscientiousness, and high self-control make criminal behavior less likely. Our results illustrate that integrating concepts from various disciplines enhances our understanding of individual behavior.

Keywords: self-control; personality traits; time preferences; risk preferences; crime; experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 C91 D03 D81 D90 K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2014-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-evo, nep-exp, nep-law and nep-neu
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Published - published as 'Predicting norm enforcement: the individual and joint predictive power of economic preferences, personality, and self-control' in: European Journal of Law and Economics, 2018, 45, 127 - 146

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