Moral disengagement causally drives delinquency through disinhibitory processes rather than my being its byproduct

Evidence

Moral disengagement contributes to level of delinquency both directly and mediationally through its influence on the disinhibitory processes described above. In tests of alternative causal paths, the theory that moral disengagement drives the disinhibitory processes fits well with the empirical findings. The alternative theory—that weak prosocialness, low guilt, moral disengagement, and delinquent behavior are simply effects of proneness to aggression—is not supported by the findings. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 271

Categorization

• XREF: Corroborates the vault’s claims about ordinary people rationalizing harmful policy: dispositional aggression cannot explain it, the cognitive mechanism drives it. Ties directly to Cooper’s social-conservatism and authoritarianism claims — same causal framing against innate-disposition alternatives.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 271