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Self-Control, Violent Offending, and Homicide Victimization: Assessing the General Theory of Crime

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Quantitative Criminology, March 2005
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

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3 news outlets
policy
1 policy source
reddit
1 Redditor

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Article details
Title
Self-Control, Violent Offending, and Homicide Victimization: Assessing the General Theory of Crime
Published in
Journal of Quantitative Criminology, March 2005
DOI 10.1007/s10940-004-1787-2
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 2%
Sweden 2 2%
Spain 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 120 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 35 28%
Student > Master 15 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 14 11%
Student > Bachelor 8 6%
Researcher 7 6%
Other 18 14%
Unknown 30 24%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 48 38%
Psychology 29 23%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 4%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 2%
Other 6 5%
Unknown 31 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 29. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 October 2025.
All research outputs
#1,630,938
of 32,030,936 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Quantitative Criminology
#67
of 593 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,421
of 99,696 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Quantitative Criminology
#1
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,030,936 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 593 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 16.7. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its peers.
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