Critique
While control theory gives an adequate explanation of non-serious forms of youthful delinquency, it fails to be effective in explaining adult criminal behavior and serious instances of youth crime. Moreover, control theory is met with some resistance for its compliance to a conservative view of the broader social order. From a control theory perspective, children who are properly bonded to their parents would be involved in less crime than children who have weaker parental bonds, and assumes that the family is a naturally law-abiding institution. Basically, the biggest weakness of the theory (and in some respects, its biggest strength) is that it places too much importance on the bonds relative to an individual and society, without looking at bigger concepts like autonomy and impulsiveness.
(Is any of this information verifiable? Or is it opinionated critique?; Such as the statement "without looking at bigger concepts like autonomy and implusiveness" an impluse is a want, driven by an unown psychological source; As such, control theory explains it in the statement from above "behavior is caused not by outside stimuli, but by what a person wants most at any given time.")
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