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Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
309 Pages
by
Routledge
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In Causes of Delinquency , Hirschi attempts to state and test a theory of delinquency, seeing in the delinquent a person relatively free of the intimate attachments, the aspirations, and the moral beliefs that bind most people to a life within the law. In prominent alternative theories, the delinquent appears either as a frustrated striver forced into delinquency by his acceptance of the goals... Read more
Introduction to the Transaction Edition
Preface
Acknowledgments
I. Perspectives on Delinquency
II. A Control Theory of Delinquency
Ill. The Sample and the Data
IV. What is Delinquency?
v. The Social Distribution of Delinquency
VI. Attachment to Parents
VII. Attachment to the School
VIII. Attachment to Peers
IX. Commitment to Conventional Lines of Action
X. Involvement in Conventional Activities
XI. Belief
XII. A Look Back
Appendixes
A. Some Traditional Variables and Delinquency
B. A Note on Techniques of Analysis
c. Research Instruments
Selected Bibliography
Index
Biography
Hirschi, Travis
