Criminological Theory
Edition: 4 edition
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: September 25, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780131113879
Subjects: Crime & criminology; Criminology (General); Social Science; Textbooks; Sociology; Criminology; Social Science / Sociology / General; 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).
Notes: 4th Edition