UMD A theory of social control with specific suggestions toward penal measures for criminals.
All persons being by nature self-seeking are liable to commit crime.
Free will is a psychological reality, people freely enter a social contract with the state to preserve peace and the consensus. The laws represent a crystallization of the moral consensus. All people are rational. Social contract theorists maintain special access to the criteria needed to judge the rationality of an act. These criteria are based on the measures of utility developed by the theorists themselves.