Sociology & Criminology for a Changing World
The Control Balance Theory, developed by Charles R. Tittle in the 1990s, is an ambitious attempt to create a general theory of deviance that explains both the likelihood and the type of deviant behavior. Unlike many other control theories that focus only on external social constraints, Tittle’s model emphasizes the dynamic relationship between the control
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