Robert Agnew Strain Theory

I could relate several instances in mine or a loved one’s life to the handout Strain Theory by Robert Agnew. This reading brought several different events I have experienced or have watched a loved one go through. These things are not criminal in nature, well the first one would be, but they could be considered as deviant by some. I will relate my memories for each Strain that is mentioned in the reading.

Objective Strains made me reminder an incident in high school when I and a female friend were with a male and as teens tend to do we were teasing our male friend about his anatomy, we were claiming his “manhood” was small, when either one of us had a clue of whether it was true or not. To our surprised he proved to us that this was not the case at all, in a public area of the school with several other students around, within view of the office window. We never said those words to him again and it was a wonder he wasn’t caught by a teacher and labeled a sex offender.

Granted, most males would not take this approach to disproving what …show more content…
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