Police in Nashville are breathing a sigh or relief this week after they say they finally managed to capture a notorious serial house burglar: a 14-year-old boy

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Police in Nashville are breathing a sigh or relief this week after they say they finally managed to capture a notorious serial house burglar: a 14-year-old boy. According to authorities, the suspect, whose name is not being released because he is a minor, broke into anywhere between 50 and 100 homes in northern Nashville over the past two years. They say the 1-year-old was also suspected in multiple cases of vandalism and theft in the Hope Gardens, Buena Vista, and Salemtown neighborhoods.

According to the TV station WKRN, the suspect teen bandit was arrested on Friday morning after a neighbor reported seeing him sneaking around a back alley. Police found a kitchen knife and a pair of gloves in his possession. Police said the teen would scope out a house to target, kick in the back door, rush inside and steal video games, flat screen TV's and whatever else he could lay his hands on.

2a) Thornberry identifies five concepts as part of his theoretical framework: commitment to school; attachment to parents; belief in conventional values (these first three are taken from social control and bonding theory); adoption of delinquent values, and association with delinquent peers (these last two are drawn from social learning and differential association-reinforcement theory). Which of these concepts do you feel explains this juvenile's offending behavior? Explain your answer.