Discussion/Study Questions Week 13

 

What are age-graded bonds of social control? And how did Sampson and Laub use this term in extending Hirschi’s version of Social Control Theory?

 

How does Power-Control Theory draw on aspects of Social Control theory to explain the relationship between gender and crime? Under what conditions does the theory suggest that the difference in criminal behavior between males and females will be greatest?

 

How would the policy implications of social control theory and self-control theory differ?

 

Why do you think many sociologists had negative reactions to self-control theory?