When Criminal Coping is Likely: An Examination of Conditioning Effects in General Strain Theory

Journal of Quantitative Criminology - Tập 34 Số 4 - Trang 887-920 - 2018
Sherod Thaxton1, Robert Agnew2
1School of Law, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA
2Department of Sociology, Emory University, Atlanta, USA

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