Journal ArticleDOI
Gender and Crime: A General Strain Theory Perspective
Lisa Broidy,Robert Agnew +1 more
TLDR
This paper applied 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) Why females engage in crime?Abstract:
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 can we explain why females engage in crime? With respect to the first question, the authors suggest that gender differences in types of strain and the reaction to strain help one understand the gender gap in criminal behavior. With respect to the second question, it is argued that several types of strain may lead to female crime under the proper circumstances. In this area, GST has much in common with numerous accounts that explain female crime in terms of oppression.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Building on the Foundation of General Strain Theory: Specifying the Types of Strain Most Likely to Lead to Crime and Delinquency:
TL;DR: In this article, the characteristics of strainful events and conditions that influence their relationship to crime are described, and it is predicted that some types of strain will not be related to crime, including types that have dominated the research on strain theory.
Journal ArticleDOI
Strain, personality traits, and delinquency: extending general strain theory
TL;DR: This paper used data from the National Survey of Children (NSOC) to predict that juveniles high in negative emotionality and low in constraint will be more likely to react to strain with delinquency.
Journal ArticleDOI
Offline consequences of online victimization: School violence and delinquency.
Sameer Hinduja,Justin W. Patchin +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors utilize general strain theory to identify the emotional and behavioral effects of cyberbullying victimization, and find that cyber bullying is a potent form of strain that may be related to involvement in school problems and delinquent behavior offline.
Journal ArticleDOI
A test of general strain theory
TL;DR: The authors provided a more comprehensive test of general strain theory, including measures of both anger and other expressions of negative affect, as well as a measure of legitimate coping, and found that strain, negative emotions, and legitimate coping are all related.
Journal ArticleDOI
Child maltreatment and juvenile delinquency: Investigating the role of placement and placement instability
Joseph P. Ryan,Mark F. Testa +1 more
TL;DR: The authors identified selected factors related to child maltreatment and delinquency and disentangled the timing of delinquency petitions relative to movements within the child welfare system, finding that substantiated victims of maltreatment average 47% higher delinquency rates relative to children not indicated for abuse or neglect.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
The structure of coping.
TL;DR: Results indicate that individuals' coping interventions are most effective when dealing with problems within the close interpersonal role areas of marriage and child-rearing and least effective when deals with the more impersonal problems found in occupation.
Journal ArticleDOI
Social structure and Anomie.
TL;DR: Merton, Robert as discussed by the authors, 1968. "Social Structure and Anomie", in Social Theory and Social Structure. New York: Free Press: 185-214. Translation: