ANALYSIS

General Theory of Crime

General Theory of Crime

Michael Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi have developed the General Theory of misdeed, or the GTC, as a way of explaining origin determinants of criminal demeanour in an effort to find a solution to the difficulty of misdeed in America. The GTC is defined as: A developmental theory that modifies social control theory by integrating concepts from biosocial, psychological, routine activities and rational choice theories(Gottfredson and Travis 1990).

Unlike other misdeed ideas, the GTC considers the lawless person offender and the lawless person proceed as separate concepts. According to this idea, crime is reasonable ...