Causes of Delinquency

ISBN-13: 9781138520158 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 309 str.

Travis Hirschi

Opis

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Hirschi, Travis