Criminological Theory (4th Edition)
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: September 25, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780131113879
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).