Criminological Theory (3rd Edition)
Edition: 3 edition
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: July 9, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780136021032
Subjects: Crime & criminology; Criminology (General); Social Science; Sociology; Criminology; Sociology - General; Social Science / Sociology / General
First sentence: After dominating deviance research in the 1960s, strain theory came under heavy attack in the 1970s, (Bernard, 1984; Cole, 1975), with several prominent researchers suggesting that the theory be abandoned (Hirschi, 1969; Kornhauser, 1978).