Research Catalog

Title

Control balance : toward a general theory of deviance / Charles R. Tittle.

Author

Tittle, Charles R. (Charles Ray), 1939-2021

Publication

Boulder : Westview Press, 1995.

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Details

Description

xi, 321 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

A major contribution to the field of crime/deviance, this volume by noted criminologist Charles R. Tittle puts forth an integrated theory of deviance - control balance. Its central premise is that the total amount of control people are subjected to, relative to the control they can exercise, will affect the probability and type of their deviant behavior. Tittle conceives of control balance as a continuation, or temporary culmination, of the collective efforts of crime/deviance scholars who have gone before, presenting it as a vehicle for trying to achieve a fully adequate general theory of deviance.

Series Statement

Crime & society

Uniform Title

Crime & society (Boulder, Colo.)

Subject

• Deviant behavior
• Social control
• Social Control, Formal
• 71.65 criminality as a social problem
• Deviant behavior
• Social control
• Abweichendes Verhalten
• Soziale Kontrolle
• Theorie
• Kriminalität
• Afwijkend gedrag
• Sociale controle

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-305) and index.

Contents

1. Problem with Simple Theories -- 2. Features of Adequate Theory -- 3. Conventional Methods of Theory Building -- 4. Theoretical Integration -- 5. What Is to Be Explained -- 6. The Concepts of Control Balance Theory -- 7. The Causal Process of Control Balance Theory -- 8. Contingencies for the Central Causal Process -- 9. Compatibility of the Theory with Evidence -- 10. Integration and Critique.

ISBN

• 0813326311
• 9780813326313
• 081332632X
• 9780813326320

LCCN

95018229

OCLC

• ocm32468405
• 32468405
• SCSB-9063302

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library