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Control theories have dominated criminological theory and research since the 1969 publication of Hirschi's seminal work on the social bond. Social control and self-control theorists are unique in suggesting that patterns in criminal behaviors are better explained by variations in social constraints rather than by individual motivational impulses, thus indicating that their main concerns are the explication and clarification of the techniques, processes, and institutions of informal social control. The four major sections of this volume focus on: the similarities and differences among the major contributors to the early developmental stage of social control theory; the central importance of parents, peers, and schools in the creation of informal control mechanisms and their link to crime and delinquency; the theoretical underpinnings of self-control theory, including empirical tests and criticisms; and theoretical integrations of social control and self-control theories with various motivational theories of crime and delinquency.

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Joseph H. Rankin is Associate Dean and Professor of Criminal Justice, Wayne State University and L. Edward Wells is Professor of Criminal Justice Sciences, Illinois State University, USA Albert J. Reiss, Jackson Toby, Gresham M. Sykes, David Matza, Walter C. Reckless, Scott Briar, Irving Piliavin, Joseph H. Rankin, Roger Kern, L. Edward Wells, Hakan Stattin, Margaret Kerr, Mark Warr, Allison Ann Payne, Travis C. Pratt, Francis T. Cullen, Alexander T. Vazsonyi, Lloyd E. Pickering, Marianne Junge, Dick Hessing, Harold G. Grasmick, Charles R. Tittle, Robert J. Bursik Jr , Bruce J. Arneklev, Kevin M. Beaver, John Paul Wright, Matt Delisi, Callie Harbin Burt, Ronald L. Simons , Leslie G. Simons, Gilbert Geis, Travis Hirschi, Michael Gottfredson, Terence P. Thornberry, Douglas Longshore, Eunice Chang, Shih-chao Hsieh, Nena Messina, Robert J. Sampson, John H. Laub, Daniel S. Nagin, Raymond Paternoster, John Hagan, A.R. Gillis, John Simpson.

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