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For Gottfredson and Hirschi, schools, like the family, have “the authority and the means to punish lapses in self-control”. In particular, schools and teachers have the capability and the ability to create effective conditions for the socialization of children and to influence the development of their self-control. Only a few studies analyze the influence of schools on self-control. The school context was operationalized there in different ways: (1) “school socialization” collected by mothers’ statements, (2) “attachment to the teachers” collected from student self-reports, (3) “monitoring in schools” also collected from student's self-reports, and (4) “classroom environment” based on teacher self-reports.
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Siegmunt, O. (2016). Context at School and Self-Control. In: Neighborhood Disorganization and Social Control. SpringerBriefs in Criminology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21590-7_4
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