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Intrinsic to Hirschi's (1969, 1977) theory of social control is the assumption that persons will engage in delinquent behavior when their social bond to society is weakened. Hirschi's concept of social bond is comprised of the following four elements: (1) attachment, (2) commitment, (3) involvement, and (4) beliefs.
Travis Hirschi's control or social bonding theory argues that those persons who have strong and. abiding attachments to conventional society (in the form of attaciuIlcnts, involvement, invest-. ment, and belief) are less likely to deviate than persons who have weak or shallow bonds.