control theory

Question 1

what

Answer 1

asking why people commit crime assumes that law-abiding behaviour is normal - isolate the root causes that have led to crime being committed

Question 2

how

Answer 2

hirschi - asking why people do not commit crime assumes that law-abiding behaviour is abnormal - suggests the majored of people are deviants - no direct cause so attempts to get the causes of criminal behaviour is abandoned - effects should be made to enforce control

Question 3

who

Answer 3

the course of crime is due to when a person’s attachment to society is weakened - argued that bond that bind people together in society are composed of 4 elements

Question 4

impact

Answer 4

causes people to think that abiding the law is abnormal - likelier to commit crime
- weakened bond cause crime to rise

Question 5

sociologist

Answer 5

hirschi - high bonds of attachment - less likely to commit crime

Question 6

limitation

Answer 6

steven box - marxist - agrees with hirschi - the idea that it is the release from the agents of control which leads to crime
- argues 5 key factors which weaken social bonds, secrecy, skill, supply and symbolic support

lea and young - not an individual with a lack of socialisation will commit crime - is actually reverse - high crime rate occurs when a well-socialised group realise the contradiction between meritocracy and the inequalities of the material capitalist work and there is no political channel for these feeling eg metoo