Travis Hirschi was born on April 15, 1935 and is currently 82 years old. Travis was born in Rockville, Utah. He is an American criminologist known for his social-control perspective on juvenile delinquency and his self-control perspective on crime. He earned his bachelor’s degree in sociology and history in 1957 and his master’s degree in sociology and educational psychology in 1958, both from the University of Utah. He was drafted in 1958 and spent two years as a data analyst for the US Army. After the army, he entered the Ph. D. program in sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. While at Berkeley, Hirschi took course from well-known sociologist Erving Goffman and Hanan Selvin. In 1964, Hirschi joined Alan Wilson, the director
