Drawing on ideas about offenders’ failure to internalize personal self-control and the absence of direct external social controls such as law and informal social control, f. ivan nye distinguished between multiple kinds of controls. control protects youths from delinquency through their wish to avoid hurting intimates, such as parents.

Chris, a master at office gossip and innuendo, says, "we know we have a corporate spy someplace in the organization, probably on the management team itself. there is no evidence that it is audrey. in fact, she's too clean, if you know what i mean. somebody should fire audrey; she's got to be the spy." by making this argument chris is actually engaging in (a) an appeal to emotion fallacy (b) a straw man fallacy (c) an appeal to ignorance fallacy (d) circular reasoning (e) an appeal to the mob fallacy