[1][2][3] General strain theory has gained a significant amount of academic attention since being developed in 1992.
Agnew supports this assumption but he also believes that, when dealing with youth, there are other factors that incite criminal behaviour.
According to stress research that Agnew and Broidy complied, women tend to experience as much or more strain than men.
[10] In 2010, Robert Agnew published a research paper applying Strain Theory to Terrorism.
[11] He finds that terrorism is most likely when people experience 'collective strains' that are: The criticisms were made because of the research conducted by Agnew in the early 1990s found that these were the main issues the theory had laid out in front of them.