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 …

Approximately 4.5 million US citizen children live in mixed-status families, in which at least 1
family member is an unauthorized migrant and therefore vulnerable to detention and …

General strain theory (GST) is usually tested by examining the effect of strain on crime.
Researchers, however, have little guidance when it comes to selecting among the many …

Social learning theory has remained one of the core criminological paradigms over the last
four decades. Although a large body of scholarship has emerged testing various …

In this article, the authors present a life-course perspective on crime and a critique of the
developmental criminology paradigm. Their fundamental argument is that persistent …

This study applies Agnew's general strain theory (GST) to two fundamental questions about
gender and crime:(1) How can we explain the higher rate of crime among males?(2) How …

Comprehensive, critical and accessible, Criminology: A Sociological Introduction offers an
authoritative overview of the study of criminology, from early theoretical perspectives to …

The major early risk factors for antisocial behavior include impulsiveness, low intelligence
and low school achievement, poor parental supervision, child physical abuse, punitive or …

This study examines the statistical validation of a recently developed, fourth-generation (4G)
risk—need assessment system (Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative …

When asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton is famously said to have replied,'Because
that's where the money is'(Cocheo 1997). The question and its answer neatly pinpoint the …