Hirschi's control theory in relation to car theft.
Title: Hirschi's control theory in relation to car theft.
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Hirschi's control theory in relation to car theft.
Category: /Law & Government
Details: Words: 1084 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Travis Hirschi formulated a control theory that he called Social Bonding Theory but he approached this theory in a different way. He did not attempt to explain why individuals engage in criminal acts, but rather why individuals choose to conform to conventional norms. It is, in a strict sense, not a theory of crime causation, but rather a theory of prosocial behaviour used often by sociologists and criminologists to better explain deviance and criminality. The
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