In the origins of sociology, "social control" served as a central concept both for relating sociology to social philosophy and for analyzing total societies. In its classical sense, it referred to the ...

Hirschi's social control theory proposes that delinquents fail to form or maintain a bond to society consisting of attachment, commitment, involvement, and belief. Using data from the Youth in ...

The kids are all right. Sociologist Travis Hirschi, a former UA faculty member whose studies on why most adolescents manage to stay out of legal trouble revolutionized the thinking of criminologists, ...