When it comes to breaking the law, a criminal may have many different reasons for doing so. Some may feel as if a loss of sense of attachment isn't a legitimate reason for murdering someone. That same someone may feel like it is an understandable reason for someone to kidnap an innocent child. Well, in that criminals head, anything he/she does is legit just for them to feel like they have closure. That loss of sense of attachment from their family the criminal has can cause them to go downhill a lot of different ways, all of which can explain a limited number of crimes. Some criminal detach themselves from their family, some or their parents just walk away from them, and some get their family taken away from them.
Travis Hirschi .
Travis Hirschi, an American Criminologist, is one of the most prominent control theorists and has contributed significant works to the field of criminology. One of his central problem's is that "modern" trends in family life have undermined the capacity of parents to "monitor, recognize, and punish the misbehavior of their children." Hirschi has this peculiar misconception about human nature-the assumption that "the individual would be noncriminal were it not for the operation of unjust and misguided institutions." He also believes criminal behavior is "not something the parents have to work to produce, it is something they have to work to avoid"; that it is, "part of the child's native equipment, and will remain unless something is done about it." The problem with Hirschi's view of "human nature" is not that it is, so to say, wrong, but that it is far too abstract to be of any help in explaining how a limited number of crimes are justified. In order to accomplish this, Hirschi must go on to blame a variety of changes in contemporary values and attitudes for weakening parents' capacity to quash their children's unruly impulses.
