The essays gathered together in this volume reflect the unique concern of social control and self-control theorists that patterns in criminal behaviors are bett

Control theories have dominated criminological theory and research since the 1969 publication of Hirschi's seminal work on the social bond. Social control and s

This handbook is an up-to-date examination of advances in the fields of juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice that includes interdisciplinary perspectives f

For the past twenty to thirty years, control theories of crime have been at the center of theoretical development in criminology. Key to the control theory pers

By articulating a general theory of crime and related behavior, the authors present a new and comprehensive statement of what the criminological enterprise shou