Browsing UT Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Subject "Juvenile delinquency--United States"
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Teens, drugs, and delinquency: a partial test of American institutional explanations of crime
(2005)This study tests two macro-sociological theories of crime, which focus on the effects of perceptions of American social institutions. Both institutional legitimacy theory and institutional anomie theory contend that ...