RT Article
T1 Victimization, Crime Propensity, and Deviance: A Multinational Test of General Strain Theory
JF Journal of contemporary criminal justice
VO 35
IS 4
SP 410
OP 430
A1 Teijón-Alcalá, Marco
A2 Birkbeck, Christopher
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/174088342X
AB General Strain Theory (GST) identifies victimization as one of the strains most strongly related to crime which, like other sources of strain, is moderated by individual and social factors. Recently, Agnew extended the theorization of coping strategies by proposing that the effects of strain on deviance are conditioned by individual and social factors in combination, rather than singly, which he labeled crime propensity. Tests of the propensity hypothesis have so far yielded mixed results, highlighting the value of additional studies. Whereas previous tests have focused on single countries, either in North America or Asia, we test the propensity hypothesis using data on adolescents in 25 countries collected through the International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD3; n = 57,760). A series of ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions show that the relationship between victimization and delinquency/substance use is conditioned by the effects of individuals’ crime propensity, thereby supporting the recent extension to GST.
K1 General strain theory
K1 Victimization
K1 Crime propensity
K1 ISRD3
DO 10.1177/1043986219870941