Childhood abuse, criminal victimisation, sex work, and substance use among homeless street youth: An application of general strain theory
Robert Agnew’s general strain theory (1992, 2001, 2006a) proposes that strain leads to crime and deviance. Substance use is a specific type of criminal behaviour that the theory attempts to explain. This thesis uses general strain theory to examine how a number of specific types of strain – homeless...
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| Language: | en en |
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1974/6761 |