The significance of criminal associations may vary across individualswith different levels of crime propensity. According to thesocial amplification thesis (Wright et al., 2001), antisocial ties increaseoffending particularly among people of low self-control. This is tantamountto positing that high self-control acts as a protective shieldagainst the deleterious impact of involvement with delinquent others.However, whether this interaction dynamics applies also in old age hasnot been scrutinized yet.