Chapter 5 - Due NLT March 6)

Summarize Merton's Strain Theory and explain how it helps us undertand
delinquency. Then, select any juvenile crime reported in the news in the last
month and apply Strain Theory that crime.

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Chapter 5 - Due NLT March 6)

Summarize Merton's Strain Theory and explain how it helps us undertand delinquency. Then, select any juvenile crime reported in the news in the last month and apply Strain Theory that crime.