AC2.1 control theory

Question 1

Control theories

Answer 1

Control theories attempt to explain why the behaviour of individuals is controlled; why they do not commit crime.
People can see the advantages of crime and are capable of committing criminal acts but the impulse to commit crime is resisted because of the costs associated with such behaviour, for example:
the disapproval of the people about whom the potential offender cares about like family and friends

Question 2

Hirschi: Bonds of Attachment

Answer 2

Hirschi believed that people attach themselves to society through a variety of ways. They create a number of social bonds that holds them to society.
Attachment
Commitment
Involvement

Question 3

Commitment:

Answer 3

Commitment:
The potential criminal ways the costs and benefits a of crime. The more they have to lose, the greater the potential costs of the crime and the less likely it is to be committed

Question 4

Involvement:

Answer 4

Involvement:
People doing conventional things such as working, playing games, watching TV, doing homework, hobbies, or spending time with family and friends. To the existent that people do this is to that extent able or unable to commit crime.

Question 5

Attachment:

Answer 5

• Family attachments are strongly correlated with delinquency and non-delinquency .
• As family attachments play a role in the socialisation of the child as well as in maintaining there subsequent conformity to the rules of society.
• Attachment to school is also a well-established predictor of delinquency. Students who report liking school and caring about the opinion of teachers are far less likely to be delinquent

Question 6

Containment theory

Answer 6

• There are inner and outer forces of containment that restrain a person from committing a crime:
• The inner forces stem from moral and religious beliefs as well as from a personal sense of right and wrong;
• The outer forces come from family members, teachers, friends, or others who influence the individual to some degree.