Race, Crime, and the American Dream

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Socioeconomic Status, Economic Problems, and Delinquency (2008, background): “As suggested above, lower-SES individuals often adjust to their deprived circumstances by lowering their economic goals and/or raising their expectations for future economic success (see Agnew, 2000; Agnew & Jones, 1988; Cernkovich et al., 2000).”
Street Youth, Gender, Financial Strain, and Crime: Exploring Broidy and Agnew's Extension to General Strain Theory (2007, methodology): “The interaction terms are then entered singly into the equations and tested for their explanatory contribution (see Cernkovich et al. 2000; Paternoster and Mazerolle 1994).”
Strain, Negative Emotions, and Deviant Coping Among African Americans: A Test of General Strain Theory (2003, result): “This is another potential contribution of the present study given that a relatively small number of studies have tested strain theory (though not necessarily GST) for African Americans, and with inconsistent results (e.g., Lauritsen, 1994; Cernkovich and Giordano, 2000).”
Specifying General Strain Theory: An Ethnically Relevant Approach (2008, background): “Cernkovich et al. (2000) have also shown that this dissatisfaction was likely to pressure adolescents into delinquency.”