Travis Hirschi
Biographic Data
| ID | 77163 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Travis Hirschi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Travis |
| FAMILY NAME | Hirschi |
| SIGNATURE | HIRSCHI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 960 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Modern Control Theory and the Limits of Criminal Justice
Modern Control Theory and the Limits of Criminal Justice updates and extends the authors’ classic general theory of crime (sometimes referred to as “self-control theory”). In Part I, contemporary evidence about the theory is summarized. Research from criminology, psychology, economics, education, and public health substantially supports the lifelong influence of self control as a significant cause of problem behaviors, including delinquency and c…
The Generality of Deviance
Methodological Issues
The Craft of Criminology
Delinquency Research: An Appraisal of Analytic Methods
This remarkable guide to delinquency studies was co-winner of the 1968 C. Wright Mills Award for the best book in the field of social problems. The work is in effect three books in one: a forthright account of how to analyze survey data, a penetrating critique of delinquency research, and a set of original essays on methodology. It is a landmark work that continues to serve as an essential tool for those who both study and want to learn about dev…
Craft of Criminology: Selected Papers
Causes of Delinquency
In Causes of Delinquency, Hirschi 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 bind most people to a life within the law. In prominent alternative theories, the delinquent appears either as a frustrated striver forced into delinquency by his acceptance of the goals common to us all, or as an innocent foreigner attempti…
Critiquing the Critics: The Authors Respond
The Rise and Fall of Social Psychology: The Use and Misuse of the Experimental Method
This unflinching effort critically traces the attempt of social psychology over the past half century to forge a scientific understanding of human behavior based on the systematic use of experiments. Having examined the record from the inception of the field to the present, Brannigan suggests that it has failed to live up to its promise: that social psychologists have achieved little consensus about the central problems in the field; that they ha…
The Craft of Criminology: Selected Papers
In Defense of Self-Control
In the 10 years since its publication in A General Theory of Crime, the authors' self-control theory has been the focus of considerable research and critical assessment. This article responds to questions about the theory that have attracted the most thoughtful attention in the serious literature of the field
Theory Without Ideas: Reply to Akers
National crime control policies
The Generality of Deviance
The Generality of Deviance
Commentary: Testing the General Theory of Crime
Administrative Criminology
A General Theory of Crime
A General Theory of Crime
By articulating a general theory of crime and related behavior, 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 unable to provide believable explanations of criminal behavior. The long-discarded classical tradition in criminology was based on choice and free will, and saw…
Control: Sociology's Central Notion. Jack P. Gibbs
Substantive Positivism and the Idea of Crime
Efforts to construct theories of crime consistent with a priori principles typically prove unsatisfactory. Awareness of this fact led the early positivists to reject choice theories in favor of discipline-specific theories tested by examination of correlations among directly measurable variables. Today, disciplinary theories of crime rely more on a priori principles than those theories they were designed to replace. This article critiques these p…
The Significance of White‐collar Crime for a General Theory of Crime
Advocates of the concept of white‐collar crime have failed to make the case for its scientific value. Steffensmeier's efforts to save the concept further support our view that it is flawed and misleading. His efforts support our contention that the correlates of white‐collar crime are the same as the correlates of crime, that the age distribution of offending is the same for white‐collar crimes as for other crimes, that official statistics have s…
Science, Public Policy, and the Career Paradigm
The career model reappears with some consistency in the history of criminology. It consistently fails, however, to organize the facts about crime in a meaningful way. As a consequence, we predict that criminology will once again abandon career models in favor of theories of crime
Causes of White‐collar Crime
This paper begins with a conceptual analysis of the idea of white‐collar crime. It considers data relevant to popular images of white‐collar crime and outlines a general theory of crime explicitly applicable to both ordinary and white‐collar crime. This theory is compared with traditional explanations of white‐collar crime, and several explicit empirical tests of rival views are described
The Methodological Adequacy of Longitudinal Research on Crime
This paper argues that the increasing dominance in contemporary criminology of the longitudinal or cohort study is not justified on methodological grounds, that this research design has taken criminological theory in unproductive directions, has produced illusory substantive findings, and has promoted policy conclusions of doubtful utility. In addition, it is noted that longitudinal research is very expensive and therefore has high opportunity co…
Age and the Explanation of Crime
One of the few facts agreed on in criminology is the age distribution of crime. This fact has been used to criticize social theories of crime causation, to provide the foundation for other theories, to justify recent emphases on career criminals, and to support claims of superiority for longitudinal designs in criminological research. In the present paper, we argue that the age distribution of crime is sufficiently invariant over a broad range of…
Hellfire and Delinquency
Religious training is assumed to prevent delinquency by promoting the development of moral values, acceptance of conventional authority, and belief in the existence of supernatural sanctions. The relations between church attendance and these presumed consequences are examined. Children who attend church are no more likely than non-attenders to accept ethical principles; they are only slightly more likely than non-attenders to respect conventional…
Correlates of Delinquency: The Illusion of Discrepancy between Self-Report and Official Measures
This paper reviews the research literature concerning the extent to which studies of delinquency that use official records produce results compatible with studies of delinquency that use self-reports of adolescents. Particular attention is given to sex, race, and social class as correlates of delinquency. The notion that official and self-report methods produce discrepant results with respect to sex, race, and class is largely illusory. In reachi…
The True Value of Lambda Would Appear to Be Zero: An Essay on Career Criminals, Criminal Careers, Selective Incapacitation, Cohort Studies, and Related Topics
The idea of selective incapacitation and the distinction between prevalence and incidence (participation and lambda) justify the search for a group of offenders whose criminality does not decline with age and who may be identified solely on the basis of legally relevant variables. This paper questions such research, arguing that the decline in age with crime characterizes even the most active offenders. and that the distinction between incidence …
The Methodological Adequacy of Longitudinal Research on Crime
This paper argues that the increasing dominance in contemporary criminology of the longitudinal or cohort study is not justified on methodological grounds, that this research design has taken criminological theory in unproductive directions, has produced illusory substantive findings, and has promoted policy conclusions of doubtful utility. In addition, it is noted that longitudinal research is very expensive and therefore has high opportunity co…
Causes of White‐collar Crime
This paper begins with a conceptual analysis of the idea of white‐collar crime. It considers data relevant to popular images of white‐collar crime and outlines a general theory of crime explicitly applicable to both ordinary and white‐collar crime. This theory is compared with traditional explanations of white‐collar crime, and several explicit empirical tests of rival views are described
In Defense of Self-Control
In the 10 years since its publication in A General Theory of Crime, the authors' self-control theory has been the focus of considerable research and critical assessment. This article responds to questions about the theory that have attracted the most thoughtful attention in the serious literature of the field
Science, Public Policy, and the Career Paradigm
The career model reappears with some consistency in the history of criminology. It consistently fails, however, to organize the facts about crime in a meaningful way. As a consequence, we predict that criminology will once again abandon career models in favor of theories of crime
Delinquency Research: An Appraisal of Analytic Methods
This remarkable guide to delinquency studies was co-winner of the 1968 C. Wright Mills Award for the best book in the field of social problems. The work is in effect three books in one: a forthright account of how to analyze survey data, a penetrating critique of delinquency research, and a set of original essays on methodology. It is a landmark work that continues to serve as an essential tool for those who both study and want to learn about dev…
Procedural Rules and the Study of Deviant Behavior
This paper examines a set of extra-theoretical rules that has for some time dominated the field of deviance: Avoid the evil-causes-evil fallacy. Seek good explanations of evil phenomena. Seek evil explanations of good phenomena. Avoid id arguments. Do not try to explain one thing by the absence of something else. Steer clear of kinds-of-people theories. Do not assume the values of the group making the rules. Appreciate deviance. These rules are a…
The Significance of White‐collar Crime for a General Theory of Crime
Advocates of the concept of white‐collar crime have failed to make the case for its scientific value. Steffensmeier's efforts to save the concept further support our view that it is flawed and misleading. His efforts support our contention that the correlates of white‐collar crime are the same as the correlates of crime, that the age distribution of offending is the same for white‐collar crimes as for other crimes, that official statistics have s…
Theory Without Ideas: Reply to Akers
Age and Crime, Logic and Scholarship: Comment on Greenberg
Causes and Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency
A General Theory of Crime
False Criteria of Causality in Delinquency Research
Journal Article False Criteria of Causality in Delinquency Research Get access Travis Hirschi, Travis Hirschi 1University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Hanan C. Selvin Hanan C. Selvin 2University of Rochester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 13, Issue 3, 1 January 1966, Pages 254–268, https://doi.org/10.…
National crime control policies
Substantive Positivism and the Idea of Crime
Efforts to construct theories of crime consistent with a priori principles typically prove unsatisfactory. Awareness of this fact led the early positivists to reject choice theories in favor of discipline-specific theories tested by examination of correlations among directly measurable variables. Today, disciplinary theories of crime rely more on a priori principles than those theories they were designed to replace. This article critiques these p…
The Great American Search: Causes of Crime 1876-1976
Biology, psychology, and sociology have suc cessively dominated American criminology over the last 100 years. Given that the biological and psychological ap proaches were both oriented toward the characteristics of the offender, they were easy to test in principle, and their eventual decline is now interpreted as a consequence of their failure to survive empirical tests. With the rise of the sociological view, there was a corresponding decline in…
The Generality of Deviance
Administrative Criminology
Reply to Ronald L. Simons
Prostitution in a Changing Society: A Sociological Survey of Legal Prostitution in Beirut
The Rise and Fall of Social Psychology: The Use and Misuse of the Experimental Method
This unflinching effort critically traces the attempt of social psychology over the past half century to forge a scientific understanding of human behavior based on the systematic use of experiments. Having examined the record from the inception of the field to the present, Brannigan suggests that it has failed to live up to its promise: that social psychologists have achieved little consensus about the central problems in the field; that they ha…
"Reply to "On the Use of Self-Report Data to Determine the Class Distribution of Criminal and Delinquent Behavior
Prostitution in a Changing Society: A Sociological Survey of Legal Prostitution in Beirut
Images of the Professor and Interest in the Academic Profession
Letter from Jerome H. Skolnick
False Criteria of Causality in Delinquency Research
Journal Article False Criteria of Causality in Delinquency Research Get access Travis Hirschi, Travis Hirschi 1University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Hanan C. Selvin Hanan C. Selvin 2University of Rochester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 13, Issue 3, 1 January 1966, Pages 254–268, https://doi.org/10.…
Deliquency Research. An Appraisal of Analytic Methods
Hellfire and Delinquency
Religious training is assumed to prevent delinquency by promoting the development of moral values, acceptance of conventional authority, and belief in the existence of supernatural sanctions. The relations between church attendance and these presumed consequences are examined. Children who attend church are no more likely than non-attenders to accept ethical principles; they are only slightly more likely than non-attenders to respect conventional…
Causes of Delinquency
Causes of Delinquency
The Design of Discord: Studies of Anomie: Suicide, Urban Society, War
Toward a Typology of Juvenile Offenders: Implications for Therapy and Prevention . Sheldon Glueck , Eleanor Glueck
From Theory to Program to Assessment
Procedural Rules and the Study of Deviant Behavior
This paper examines a set of extra-theoretical rules that has for some time dominated the field of deviance: Avoid the evil-causes-evil fallacy. Seek good explanations of evil phenomena. Seek evil explanations of good phenomena. Avoid id arguments. Do not try to explain one thing by the absence of something else. Steer clear of kinds-of-people theories. Do not assume the values of the group making the rules. Appreciate deviance. These rules are a…
Radical Non-Intervention: Rethinking the Delinquency Problem
Schools and Delinquency
The Great American Search: Causes of Crime 1876-1976
Biology, psychology, and sociology have suc cessively dominated American criminology over the last 100 years. Given that the biological and psychological ap proaches were both oriented toward the characteristics of the offender, they were easy to test in principle, and their eventual decline is now interpreted as a consequence of their failure to survive empirical tests. With the rise of the sociological view, there was a corresponding decline in…
Intelligence and Delinquency: A Revisionist Review
Recent research on intelligence and delinquency suggests that (1) the relation is at least as strong as the relation of either class or race to official delinquency; (2) the relation is stronger than the relation of either class or race to self-reported delinquency. In an analysis of the history of the research on the IQ-delinquency relation, we trace the developments leading to the current textbook position that IQ is not an important factor in …
Recherches en délinquance. Principes de l'analyse quantitative
Causes and Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency
Biosocial Bases of Criminal Behavior
This collection of articles had been put together shortly before its second author died suddenly in 1976. It reports on an exciting body of research, carried out in Scandinavia but supported by U.S. grants and performed in part by American and British scientists. These studies bear witness to the energy, inquisitiveness and versatility of the first author. He has personally tackled enough problems to have given five scientists, each from a differ…
Reply to Ronald L. Simons
Deviance and Social Change
Correlates of Delinquency: The Illusion of Discrepancy between Self-Report and Official Measures
This paper reviews the research literature concerning the extent to which studies of delinquency that use official records produce results compatible with studies of delinquency that use self-reports of adolescents. Particular attention is given to sex, race, and social class as correlates of delinquency. The notion that official and self-report methods produce discrepant results with respect to sex, race, and class is largely illusory. In reachi…
Understanding crime: Current Theory and Research
Good News from the No Longer Abysmal Science
Measuring Delinquency
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