Low self-control and the adolescent police stop: Intrusiveness, emotional response, and psychological well-being

The current study extends the literature on both Gottfredson and Hirschi's (1990) self-control theory and adolescent police stops by exploring the role of low self-control in the features and consequences of police stops among urban-born youth. Data come from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS). Logistic, negative binomial, and ordinary least squares regression are utilized to analyze the data. Mediating hypotheses are...