- Steven F. Messner and Richard Rosenfield
- American Dream is the cause of a lot of crime since rich and poor people compare themselves to one another but the poor cannot achieve it 

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- Goals created by society are not achievable because of a lack of opportunities 5 different responses some of which lead to crime
- Robert K. Merton created this theory

Strain Theory

Siegel, L. J. (2000). Criminology. Criminology: Siegel, Larry J: Free Download, Borrow. Wadsworth/Thomson Learning. https://archive.org/details/criminology00sieg. 

Criminology

5 different terms created by Merton to describe how people view the means to achieve agoal and how they feel about a goal

Goals and Means Disjuncture

Relative Deprivation

- Robert Agnew
- Negative social relations are created by socioemotional problems create crime as a result
- Stain occurs because
   - Negative stimuli (insults)
   - Loss of positive stimuli (Death)
   - Stopping people form achieving positvely valued goasl

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