can low self-control help with the understanding of the software piracy problem?
- 8 December 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Deviant Behavior
- Vol. 26 (1), 1-24
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01639620490497947
Abstract
Computer crime—specifically, software piracy—is growing, and no research in criminology examines whether low self-control can help us understand the behavior. This study examines the link that Gottfredson and Hirschi's (1990) idea of low self-control has with software piracy. Using a nonrandom sample of college students and measures of low self-control, software pirating peers, software pirating attitudes, and moral beliefs toward software piracy, the findings show that low self-control has a link with software piracy. This finding expands the scope of self-control theory and provides an understanding of why the behavior occurs.Keywords
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