
Control Balance
Toward A General Theory Of Deviance
Charles R. Tittle(Author)
Westview Press Inc
1st Edition
Published on 27. October 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-8133-2632-0 (ISBN)
Description
A major contribution to the field of crime eviance, 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 behaviour.In developing control balance, Tittle critically reviews other general theories such as anomie, Marxian conflict, social control, differential association/social learning, labelling, and routine activities and offers reasons why those theories are insufficient. Using real-world examples to illustrate his argument, he contends that deviance results from the convergence of four variables, each of which represents an interactive nexus of several inputs, including most prominently a control imbalance. The variables are predisposition, motivation, opportunity, and constraint. Control balance theory also explains six basic types of deviance, ranging from predation, defiance, and submissiveness on one end of a control ratio continuum to exploitation, plunder, and decadence on the other.Tittle conceives of control balance as a continuation, or temporary culmination, of the collective efforts of crime eviance scholars who have gone before, presenting it as a vehicle for trying to achieve a fully adequate general theory of deviance.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
488 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8133-2632-0 (9780813326320)
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Person
Charles R. Tittle is professor of sociology at Washington State University at Pullman. He is the editor of Criminology, the journal of the American Society of Criminology, and the author of Society of Subordinates and Sanctions and Social Deviance.
Content
The Problem with Simple Theories -- Features of Adequate Theory -- Conventional Methods of Theory Building -- Theoretical Integration -- What Is to Be Explained -- The Concepts of Control Balance Theory -- The Causal Process of Control Balance Theory -- Contingencies for the Central Causal Process -- Compatibility of the Theory with Evidence -- Integration and Critique