Explaining crime for a young adult population: An application of general strain theory

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Street Youth, Gender, Financial Strain, and Crime: Exploring Broidy and Agnew's Extension to General Strain Theory (2007, background): “Ostrowsky and Messner (2005) found that males were less likely to respond to strain, including victimization, neighbourhood strain, life hassles, blocked opportunities, or discrepancies between aspirations and outcomes, with depression.”
Offender emotion and self-regulation: implications for offender rehabilitation programming (2009, result): “Ostrowsky and Messner (2005), for example, in their study of young adult offenders, found that selected forms of strain were related to depression, and this in turn influenced offending, although these findings applied only to males.”
Experienced and vicarious victimization: Do social support and self-esteem prevent delinquent responses? (2010, background): “Evidence indicates the viability of a general strain interpretation, in that victimization contributes to later delinquency, controlling for the adolescent’s prior delinquent involvement (Hay & Evans, 2006; Ostrowsky & Messner, 2005).”