Purpose Over the past 25 years, across a wide range of academic disciplines, the National
Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health has facilitated a wealth of research on the …

At no time in history, and certainly in no other democratic society, have prisons been filled so
quickly and to such capacity than in the United States. And nowhere has this growth been …

According to general strain theory (GST), individuals who experience strain or stress often
become upset and sometimes cope with crime. This simple idea is at the core of GST …

This book provides a sociological perspective on crime and criminal justice by treating social
structure and social inequality as central themes in the study of crime—and major factors in …

Over the past two decades, there has been an explosion of empirical research on
neighborhoods and health. However, although the data and approaches owe much to the …

Recent work on the relationship between adolescent violence and its outcomes has posited
that aggression by adolescents who are exposed to violence can be viewed as an adaptive …

The counseling psychology Model Training Program (MTP) was written to reflect new
developments in counseling psychology, the American Psychological Association, and the …

This paper expands and builds on newer avenues in research on gender and general strain
theory (GST). I accomplish this by focusing on serious strains that are relevant for males and …

Abstract Since 1992, General Strain Theory (GST) has earned strong empirical support and
has been applied to several key correlates of crime (eg, age, sex, community), but …

Research Summary We develop a set of hypotheses informed by a social disorganization
framework and test them using newly available data on nearly 600 terrorist attacks in US …