ocation was weaker and may be able to be explained by other perspectives other than control theory. This theory therefore does support the view that it is social controls that prevent us all from committing crime; however there is more support for personal controls being responsible for this.
One theory that supports the idea that it is social controls that prevent us from committing crime is by Nye (1958) who studied the family as the most important social control for adolescents. His main argument, according to Vold (2002), was that most deviant behaviour was due to the lack of social controls and delinquent behaviour ‘caused by’ positive factors was very rare. Vold (2002) also describes what was meant by social control in the way that it was studied by Nye (1958). He wrote, “Social control was used as a broad term that included direct controls imposed by means of restrictions and punishments, internal control exercised through conscience, indirect control related to affectionate identification with parents and other non criminal pers...