Social Control Theory explains why people obey laws and norms, focusing on the social bonds and relationships that keep ...

Studies of the relationship between race and delinquency have typically found that broken homes lead to greater delinquency among blacks than whites, but have not demonstrated empirically why this is ...

Social Forces, Vol. 97, No. 1 (September 2018), pp. 277-308 (32 pages) Social disorganization theory is one of the most widely tested theories in criminology, yet few studies consider the temporal and ...