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Issues in Criminal Justice I PHD THEORY COMPREHENSIVE EXAM READING LIST 2019 Agnew, R. (1992). Foundation for a general strain theory of crime & delinquency. Criminology 30(1), 47-87. Agnew, R. (2006). General strain theory: Current status and directions for further research. In F.T. Cullen, J.P. Wright & K.R. Blevins (Eds.), Taking stock: The status of criminological theory (pp. 101-123). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction. Akers, R.L. & Jensen, G.F. (2006). The empirical status of social learning theory in Criminology. In F.T. Cullen, J.P. Wright & K.R. Blevins (Eds.), Taking stock: The status of criminological theory (pp. 37-76). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction. Anderson, E. (1999). Code of the street: Decency, violence, and the moral life of the inner city. New York, NY: W.W. Norton Bandura, A. (1973). Aggression: A social learning analysis. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. Bandura, A. (1977). Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change. 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