Cannabis Use: Insights from Social Control Theory and the Canadian Alcohol and Drug Use Monitoring Survey

Social control theory focuses on why some people do not commit deviant behaviours, such as illicit drug use. It proposes that bonding to conventional society constrains deviant conduct. In the book Causes of Delinquency, Hirschi distinguished four elements of social bonds: attachment, commitment, in...

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Other Authors: Dell, Colleen
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2016-02-2489