Gender and Crime: An Empirical Test of General Strain Theory among Youth in Babol (A City in Northern Part of Iran)

Subject Areas : Sociological Studies of Youth

Ali Asghar Abbasi Asfajir ¹

1 - Department of Social Sciences, Babol Branch, Islamic Azad University, Babol, Iran

Received: 2018-10-01 Accepted : 2018-10-01 Published : 2018-07-01

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