Agnew's General Strain Theory
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Agnew’s general stain theory also believes that anger plays a significant role in leading to crime. For Agnew, anger and frustration are ways of coping with these power imbalances, experienced as “negative social relations” (Lanier and Henry, 2015 p. 229). This indicates that strain that is created by the denied achieved goal (job), negative emotions merge (anger), which result in criminal behavior (robbery). If someone becomes upset, frustrated or anxious they will turn to crime in order to deal with these feelings. Therefore indicating that strain leads to anger and anger leads to deviance. However, this theory has alternative coping mechanism other and crime; cognitive, emotional, and behavioral.
General strain theory applies to the DC mansion murders, in that Wint’s was experiencing significant strain from the loss of employment and lack of financial stability. Devon Wint’s was a former employee at American Iron Works. According to reports Mr. Wint’s was fired but the circumstances surrounding his termination are …show more content…
230). They both strive to achieve the desired goal and resort to criminal activity when those goals are not met. Cultural influences reinforce the ideology that the “sky is the limit” and you should never stop trying to achieve that success. Social institution, such as family and school impose this pressure and the failure to meet these expectation produce strain. If these expectation aren’t met then the individual result in delinquent behavior. Messner and Rosenfeld argue that for each configuration of society’s imbalance there is a corresponding rare of crime (Lanier and Henry, 2015, p. 233). Untimely these two theirs want to achieve success by any means possible, and it they aren’t able to do so by legitimate ways then they will resort to delinquent
Agnew’s general stain theory also believes that anger plays a significant role in leading to crime. For Agnew, anger and frustration are ways of coping with these power imbalances, experienced as “negative social relations” (Lanier and Henry, 2015 p. 229). This indicates that strain that is created by the denied achieved goal (job), negative emotions merge (anger), which result in criminal behavior (robbery). If someone becomes upset, frustrated or anxious they will turn to crime in order to deal with these feelings. Therefore indicating that strain leads to anger and anger leads to deviance. However, this theory has alternative coping mechanism other and crime; cognitive, emotional, and behavioral.
General strain theory applies to the DC mansion murders, in that Wint’s was experiencing significant strain from the loss of employment and lack of financial stability. Devon Wint’s was a former employee at American Iron Works. According to reports Mr. Wint’s was fired but the circumstances surrounding his termination are …show more content…
230). They both strive to achieve the desired goal and resort to criminal activity when those goals are not met. Cultural influences reinforce the ideology that the “sky is the limit” and you should never stop trying to achieve that success. Social institution, such as family and school impose this pressure and the failure to meet these expectation produce strain. If these expectation aren’t met then the individual result in delinquent behavior. Messner and Rosenfeld argue that for each configuration of society’s imbalance there is a corresponding rare of crime (Lanier and Henry, 2015, p. 233). Untimely these two theirs want to achieve success by any means possible, and it they aren’t able to do so by legitimate ways then they will resort to delinquent