Examining the Strain-Crime Relationship Among African American Women
Journal: UKnowledge (University of Kentucky)
Year: 2016

Agnew’s (1992; 2006) general strain theory (GST) has become one of the foremost theories to explain crime in contemporary criminology. While it has undergone several empirical tests over the years, there remain many understudied aspects of the theory. The current study addresses some of these aspects by longitudinally exploring the relationship between multiple types of strain and drug and non-drug crime among a sample of African American women. Data for this study were collected as part of a la