An investigation into the causes of delinquency. It attempts to state and test a theory of delinquency, seeing in the delinquent a person relatively free of the intimate attachments, the aspirations, and the moral beliefs that hold most people to a life within the law.[...]
By articulating a general theory of crime and related behaviour, the authors present a new and comprehensive statement of what the criminological enterprise should be about. They argue that prevalent academic criminology - whether sociological, psychological, biological, or economic - has been unabl[...]