1. Joseph Hall and the General Strain Theory
... ', said Hall (Wallace, 2013). The anticipated removal of the positive stimuli, was highly conducive to Hall committing crime as a result – killing his father who threatened divorce. Agnew (2001:326) notes that strains are most likely to result in crime when they (1) are seen as unjust, (2) are seen as high in magnitude, (3) are associated with low social control, and (4) create some ... from the terror. At one NSM meeting just a few weeks before he died, Hall's father boasted that 'by the age of nine, my son was able to operate a Gen-1 night vision and infrared scope.' (Wallace, 2...
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