aggression," (Kobayashi 25). Such findings lend themselves somewhat to the idea that social controls are often entities that are cultivated through particular interpersonal relationships. However, the stronger theory to apply to these results is the social learning theory. It is reasonable to believe, for instance, that those individuals who never form a close bond with their mothers receive few daily indicators of how to appropriately behave among females; consequently, their innate drive to procreate irrevocably associates with aggression and with inappropriate sexual desires-like children. Still, if we adopt the initial premise of both the social learning theory and social control theory-that it is human nature to commit crimes-then we are simultaneously embracing the notion that people, if left to their own devices, are inclined to display sexual aggre
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