Robert Agnew (born December 1, 1953, in Atlantic City, New Jersey) is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Sociology at Emory University[1] and past president of the American Society of Criminology.
and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in, respectively, 1978 and 1980—all in sociology.
[1] He joined Emory University in 1980 and served as chairperson of the sociology department from 2006-2009.
He is well known for his development of general strain theory and was elected Fellow of the American Society of Criminology.
[3] He has served on the editorial boards of Criminology, Journal of Crime and Justice, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology, Justice Quarterly, Social Forces, Theoretical Criminology, Turkish Journal of Criminology, and Youth & Society.