General Strain Theory: Current Status and Directions for Further Research

Taking Stock: The Status of Criminological Theory: Advances in Criminological Theory: Volume 15

Volumn 15, Issue , 2017, Pages 101-124

  Agnew, Robert ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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