THE EMPIRICAL STATUS OF STRAIN THEORY

The Truly Disadvantaged. The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy. By William Julius Wilson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. 254p. $19.95.

1988 • 6,398 citations

A General Theory of Crime

1990 • 6,235 citations

The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, The Underclass, and Public Policy.

1988 • 5,965 citations

Sociology and Social Research

1981 • 5,067 citations

The stress process.

1981 • 5,043 citations

FOUNDATION FOR A GENERAL STRAIN THEORY OF CRIME AND DELINQUENCY*

1992 • 4,270 citations

The Stress Process

1981 • 4,031 citations

Social Structure and Anomie

2017 • 3,744 citations

Causes of Delinquency

2017 • 3,190 citations

Explaining Delinquency and Drug Use

1988 • 2,239 citations

Explaining Delinquency and Drug Use.

1986 • 1,703 citations

Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980.

1985 • 1,701 citations

The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology.

1971 • 1,653 citations

Priorities in Scientific Discovery: A Chapter in the Sociology of Science

1957 • 1,523 citations

Crime and Human Nature

1985 • 1,479 citations

Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980

1984 • 1,472 citations

The Cost of Inequality: Metropolitan Structure and Violent Crime

1982 • 1,446 citations

Delinquent Boys. The Culture of the Gang

1955 • 1,415 citations

Delinquency and Opportunity: A Theory of Delinquent Gangs

1961 • 1,279 citations

Crime and Deviance over the Life Course: The Salience of Adult Social Bonds

1990 • 1,022 citations

Delinquent Boys—The Culture of the Gang

1955 • 864 citations

Delinquent Boys: The Culture of the Gang

1971 • 721 citations

Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy.

1982 • 659 citations

Delinquency and dropout

1974 • 642 citations

The Urban Underclass.

1992 • 611 citations

Social Sources of Delinquency: An Appraisal of Analytic Models.

1979 • 576 citations

A Revised Strain Theory of Delinquency

1985 • 538 citations

Delinquency and Opportunity: A Theory of Delinquent Gangs.

1961 • 487 citations

The New Criminology

2002 • 428 citations

The New Criminology: For a Social Theory of Deviance.

1974 • 389 citations

A Revised Strain Theory of Delinquency

1985 • 370 citations

Criminological theory: context and consequences

1990 • 342 citations

Confronting Crime: An American Challenge

1986 • 338 citations

Understanding and Controlling Crime

1986 • 324 citations

The Gender Gap in Theories of Deviance: Issues and Evidence

1987 • 323 citations

The Coming Crisis in Western Sociology

1971 • 319 citations

Criminology: A Contemporary Handbook

1991 • 278 citations

The Current State of Differential Association Theory

1988 • 276 citations

Is 1980s Sociology in the Doldrums?

1986 • 231 citations

Adolescent marijuana use: A test of three theories of deviant behavior

1985 • 214 citations

Images of Deviance & Social Control: A Sociological History

1985 • 205 citations

Understanding and Controlling Crime: Toward a New Research Strategy

2011 • 198 citations

The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath.

1991 • 196 citations

Youth, Underemployment, and Property Crime: Differential Effects of Job Availability and Job Quality on Juvenile and Young Adult Arrest Rates

1989 • 178 citations

The Idea of Social Structure: Papers in Honor of Robert K. Merton.

1977 • 164 citations

The Socially Bounded Decision Making of Persistent Property Offenders

1992 • 162 citations

Characterizing life events as risk factors for depression: The role of fateful loss events.

1989 • 162 citations

Strain Theory Revisited: Economic Goals, Educational Means, and Delinquency

1989 • 157 citations

Anomie and corporate deviance

1990 • 135 citations

Contemporary Theories of Deviance and Female Delinquency: an Empirical Test

1980 • 126 citations

The Labelling of Deviance: Evaluating a Perspective.

1976 • 119 citations

Regional Differences in the Economic Correlates of the Urban Homicide Rate

1983 • 115 citations

Stressful life change and delinquent behavior

1983 • 94 citations

Den of Thieves

1992 • 92 citations

Testing Structural Strain Theories

1987 • 91 citations

The Effect of Formal and Informal Sanctions on Delinquency: A Longitudinal Comparison of Labeling and Deterrence Theories

1984 • 87 citations

A longitudinal test of the revised strain theory

1989 • 79 citations

DISAGGREGATING SELF‐REPORTED DELINQUENCY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THEORY*

1988 • 76 citations

Merton's “social structure and anomie”: The road not taken

1988 • 73 citations

Socialization and Stress Explanations for Spouse Abuse

1988 • 72 citations

Varieties of Criminology: Readings from a Dynamic Discipline

1993 • 72 citations

Control Criticisms of Strain Theories: An Assessment of Theoretical and Empirical Adequacy

1984 • 71 citations

Racial residential segregation and suburban crime

1987 • 69 citations

The Labelling of Deviance: Evaluating a Perspective

1977 • 66 citations

Female Delinquency: An Application of Self and Opportunity Theories

1975 • 66 citations

Delinquency, Opportunity, and Gender

1979 • 57 citations

Socio-Economic Status and Reported Delinquent Behavior

1966 • 54 citations

Perceived Opportunities, Gang Membership, and Delinquency

1965 • 54 citations

Apathy, Truancy and Delinquency as Adaptations to School Failure

1969 • 52 citations

Toward a control theory of white-collar offending

1988 • 51 citations

Aspirations, Expectations, and Delinquency: Stress and Additive Models

1971 • 43 citations

A Study of the Efficacy and Interactions of Several Theories for Explaining Rebelliousness among High School Students

1978 • 43 citations

The Effect of Police and Mental Health Intervention on Juvenile Deviance: Specifying Contingencies in the Impact of Formal Reaction

1986 • 41 citations

EVALUATING TWO MODELS OF DELINQUENCY CAUSATION Structural Theory and Control Theory

1978 • 41 citations

Labelling and Deviance: A Case Study in the "Sociology of the Interesting"

1973 • 39 citations

Social Factors in Adolescent Deviant Behaviour in Hong Kong: An Integrated Theoretical Approach

1988 • 38 citations

The demise of the criminological imagination: A critique of recent criminology

1984 • 38 citations

Interacting Factors in Juvenile Delinquency

1964 • 36 citations

Delinquency and Perceived Opportunity*

1962 • 35 citations

Perceived Relative Deprivation as a Cause of Property Crime

1976 • 34 citations

The New Criminology: For a Social Theory of Deviance

1974 • 34 citations

Robert Merton's Contributions to the Sociology of Deviance

1989 • 32 citations

VALUE ORIENTATIONS AND DELINQUENCY INVOLVEMENT

1978 • 31 citations

On “Testing Structural Strain Theories”

1987 • 31 citations

Were Cloward and Ohlin Strain Theorists? Delinquency and Opportunity Revisited

1988 • 30 citations

The Effect of Goal Discrepancy on Delinquency

1974 • 26 citations

Goal Orientations and Illegal Behavior Among Juveniles

1963 • 25 citations

On the Usefulness of Merton's Anomie Theory

1983 • 25 citations

Perceptions Regarding Value Orientation and Legitimate Opportunity: Delinquents and Non-Delinquents

1965 • 24 citations

Significant Adults, Caretakers, and Structures of Opportunity: An Exploratory Study

1967 • 22 citations

A Critical Look at Merton's Anomie Theory

1975 • 19 citations

Juvenile Delinquency in the Republic of China: A Chinese Empirical Study of Social Control Theory

1988 • 19 citations

Evaluating Structural and Control Models of Delinquency Causation

1983 • 18 citations

Apathy, Truancy and Delinquency as Adaptations to School Failure

1969 • 18 citations

Socio-Economic Status and Reported Delinquent Behavior

1966 • 14 citations

Socialization and Stress Explanations for Spouse Abuse

1988 • 13 citations

Organizational Involvement and Social Control

1968 • 7 citations

Relative Occupational Anticipations and Aspirations of Delinquents and Nondelinquents

1969 • 6 citations

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