General Strain Theory: An Overview and Policy Implications
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2022-04-07
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Honors Symposium, The University of Tampa
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UT Honors is proud to present the inaugural Spaulding Speaker Series featuring Dr. Robert Agnew, creator of the general strain theory of delinquency in the field of Criminology.
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Robert Agnew is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Emory University. His research focuses on the causes of crime,
particularly his general strain theory of delinquency. His has published over 150 articles/chapters and seven books, including Toward A Unified
Criminology: Integrating Assumptions about Crime, People, and Society (NYU Press, 2011); Pressured into Crime: An Overview of General
Strain Theory (Oxford, 2006); and Why Do Criminals Offend: A General Theory of Crime and Delinquency (Oxford, 2005). He served as
President of the American Society of Criminology (ASC), is an ASC Fellow, received the ASC’s Edwin H. Sutherland Award, and was elected to
the Southern Sociological Society Roll of Honor.
Please click on YouTube Video link above to stream the presentation.
Please click on YouTube Video link above to stream the presentation.
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General Strain Theory, Sociology