Abstract Pressured Into Crime: An Overview of General Strain Theory by Robert Agnew
provides an overview of general strain theory, one of the leading explanations of crime and …

At no time in history, and certainly in no other democratic society, have prisons been filled so
quickly and to such capacity than in the United States. And nowhere has this growth been …

Imprisonment is the most severe punishment in democratic societies except for capital
punishment, which is used only in the United States. Crime prevention is its primary …

Dominant theoretical explanations of racial disparities in criminal offending overlook a key
risk factor associated with race: interpersonal racial discrimination. Building on recent …

There is increasing pressure for the juvenile criminal legal system to address trauma; this is
in response to advances in the science of trauma and adversity, evidence from interventions …

Criminology: Explaining Crime and Its Context, Ninth Edition, is a highly acclaimed textbook
offering a broad perspective on criminological theory. It provides students of criminology and …

Prior research has established that the characteristics of “places” are an important aspect of
public safety and local quality of life. Growth in the rates of incarceration since 1973 …

The authors extended Elijah Anderson's “code of the street” thesis to explain victimization
among a longitudinal sample of 720 African American adolescents from 259 neighborhoods …

Researchers studying the race–violence relationship have tended to focus on either
structural or cultural explanations. Although both explanations are important, they tend to be …