Criminological Theory
Publisher: Pearson Custom Pub
Published: September 28, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780536124821
Subjects: Criminology; Social Science; Sociology
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).