Understanding persistent offending among incarcerated offenders through general strain theory

In this dissertation, I assess the ability of Agnew's general strain theory to explain ongoing deviance (measured as official misconduct) among an incarcerated adult offender population. In building the argument, I relied on a rich body of literature related to the prison experience to hypothes...

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