Social Control Theory.

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...October 2000 Introduction Sociology attempts to find patterns in the behavior of people. What makes some of us do one thing and others not? The only way we can effect change is to recognize it is happening. Sociologists attempt to give us those clues. Social Control Theory Social Control theorists start with the premise that human behavior is by nature antisocial and delinquent. They focus on restraining or "controlling" factors that are broken or missing inside the personalities of criminals. If these restraining factors are thought to involve society in some way, as with the sociological notion that norms are internalized, then the theory is said to be a "social" control theory, and is most probably based on Durkheim's idea...

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