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Research Article

Examining Gender- and Drug-Specific Arrest Counts: A Partial Test of Agnew’s General Strain Theory

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Pages 1097-1112 | Received 21 Apr 2018, Accepted 31 Aug 2018, Published online: 26 Mar 2019

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