Direct correspondence to Stephen W. Baron, Department of Sociology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6. Telephone: (613) 533–2170, Fax: (613) 533–2871, Email: barons@post.queensu.ca. The author would like to acknowledge the financial assistance of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Queen's University Chancellor's Research Award. The author would also like to thank Raymond Paternoster and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. Thanks to Kelli Phythian and Jennifer Robinson for research assistance.
GENERAL STRAIN, STREET YOUTH AND CRIME: A TEST OF AGNEW'S REVISED THEORY†
Article first published online: 7 MAR 2006
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2004.tb00526.x
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BARON, S. W. (2004), GENERAL STRAIN, STREET YOUTH AND CRIME: A TEST OF AGNEW'S REVISED THEORY. Criminology, 42: 457–484. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2004.tb00526.x
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