Emmanuel Hernandez
Nature of Crime CRIJ 3303.01
Date: April 29, 2015 Strain Theory
This article’s goal was to test the applicability of Agnew’s general strain theory to other explanations regarding whether or not physical victimization while being incarcerated increased the risk of negative reentry from previous inmates that were incarcerated, particularly criminal offenders and substance abusers. Two studies that have been previously made have used the general strain theory as a way to analyze and examine the effects of the different types of victimization related to substance abuse. The first study that was conducted used data retrieved from the National Youth Survey. The data that was found had support for the general strain …show more content…
This study also has a goal to test the extent of explanatory power that all theories, including the containment theory, have for general types of delinquency in all categories of race and sex. Previous studies on this theory have played a major role in allowing us to furthermore be able to understand the relationships between social learning, social control, delinquency, and containment. Although they have made a lot of contributions, they have only showed a part of this phenomenon. Research made by Jensen in 2011 showed that the relationships between self-evaluations and delinquency were different among whites and blacks. Research also made by Hindelang et al suggested that blacks and whites differed significantly in the seriousness of the types of offenses they committed. The study showed that whites tended to commit less serious offenses and blacks committed more serious offenses. In order to get to these conclusions, questionnaires were distributed in four different high schools and three correctional institutions in a southwest metropolitan area. The sizes of the schools varied from small rural schools to larger batch in an urban school with a greater number of whites. These schools were chosen because of the diverse student population that was acquired and the correctional institutions that were selected one for boys and another for girls and one that was coeducational. The final sample of 680 students contained a wide variety of juveniles who had committed a crime before and juveniles who had never come into confrontations with authorities. The questionnaire that was used was made by Long (1976) as a way to measure the respondents’ perception of seven containers that were included within the containment theory. The results of these
Nature of Crime CRIJ 3303.01
Date: April 29, 2015 Strain Theory
This article’s goal was to test the applicability of Agnew’s general strain theory to other explanations regarding whether or not physical victimization while being incarcerated increased the risk of negative reentry from previous inmates that were incarcerated, particularly criminal offenders and substance abusers. Two studies that have been previously made have used the general strain theory as a way to analyze and examine the effects of the different types of victimization related to substance abuse. The first study that was conducted used data retrieved from the National Youth Survey. The data that was found had support for the general strain …show more content…
This study also has a goal to test the extent of explanatory power that all theories, including the containment theory, have for general types of delinquency in all categories of race and sex. Previous studies on this theory have played a major role in allowing us to furthermore be able to understand the relationships between social learning, social control, delinquency, and containment. Although they have made a lot of contributions, they have only showed a part of this phenomenon. Research made by Jensen in 2011 showed that the relationships between self-evaluations and delinquency were different among whites and blacks. Research also made by Hindelang et al suggested that blacks and whites differed significantly in the seriousness of the types of offenses they committed. The study showed that whites tended to commit less serious offenses and blacks committed more serious offenses. In order to get to these conclusions, questionnaires were distributed in four different high schools and three correctional institutions in a southwest metropolitan area. The sizes of the schools varied from small rural schools to larger batch in an urban school with a greater number of whites. These schools were chosen because of the diverse student population that was acquired and the correctional institutions that were selected one for boys and another for girls and one that was coeducational. The final sample of 680 students contained a wide variety of juveniles who had committed a crime before and juveniles who had never come into confrontations with authorities. The questionnaire that was used was made by Long (1976) as a way to measure the respondents’ perception of seven containers that were included within the containment theory. The results of these