Control Balance

Charles R. Tittle is professor of sociology at Washington State University at Pullman. He is the editor of Criminology, the journal of the American Society of Criminology, and the author of Society of Subordinates and Sanctions and Social Deviance.

• 1 The Problem with Simple Theories -- 2 Features of Adequate Theory -- 3 Conventional Methods of Theory Building -- 4 Theoretical Integration -- 5 What Is to Be Explained -- 6 The Concepts of Control Balance Theory -- 7 The Causal Process of Control Balance Theory -- 8 Contingencies for the Central Causal Process -- 9 Compatibility of the Theory with Evidence -- 10 Integration and Critique