In order to test the theories of Differential Association, Social Control and General Crime, the
relationship between antisocial behavior and key constructs of the theories was analyzed, namely, “favourable definitions” (differential association), “attachment” (social control) and “self-control”. The propositional integrated side-by-side approach of Tibbets and Hemmens (2010) was used to determine the weight
of said constructs in the prediction of antisocial behavior with a binary logistic regression model entering the
explanatory variables in blocks. Sociodemographic variables such as sex and the size of the city were included. A total of 2,395 adolescents were surveyed in schools located in three cities (large, medium and small) in Venezuela. The results show that, of the three variables derived from differential association theory, the favourable
definitions of friends towards participation in criminal acts served as predictors of antisocial behavior at
the individual level. Of the ten variables derived from social control theory, attachment to school and participation in
activities without family supervision predict antisocial behaviour. Self-control (from the general theory of crime) also predicts antisocial behavior
