Book of Donmon Teith

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 attachme

This volume marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Travis Hirschi’s seminal work Causes of Delinquency. The influence of Hirschi’s book, and the t

This book tests three theories of delinquency causation -- the strain, control, and cultural deviancy theories -- using a large body of data on delinquency coll

A great deal has been learned about serious child and adolescent conduct problems, but their causes are still not well understood. This book brings together an

[In this book, the author offers] key theoretical and conceptual issues in the field and includes all of the information that is relevant and timely in a juveni