Charles Manson's General Strain Theory

Charles Manson, who is known today as the notorious criminal for the murder of not just one individual, but many. There are many books, movies, and journals about him and his actions that put society on pause for a while. As many today from past history, Charles Manson was a cult leader from the 1960’s. Some terms he describes himself, and what other individuals may describe him as are, a white supremacist, Nazi, a mass murderer, a druggy, and a cultist. The mind fogging issue here was that he didn’t commit the murders himself; he had his followers do all of the murdering, that’s how much of an influence he was the cult he led. He was born November 12th, 1934 in Cincinnati, Ohio making him 82 years old today, and still alive. His residence

According to one academic peer reviewed journal I have found, we can conclude that Charles Manson can be identified with the general strain theory. To lead into why Charles can me concluded with the general strain theory, I will be giving some simple understanding of what this particular theory means. As the Volds Theoretical Criminology states about the GST, Robert Agnew proposed and documented this theory and it covers a large range of different behaviors in the criminal world. This particular theory is unlike most others and it mostly has to do with individuals’ different social classes of all types, and what economic position people would classify themself in. To elaborate on this broad economic position more, this has to do with lower middle class, middle class, and upper middle class. All in all from Charles Manson’s background to what he evolved in as a psychotic killer, this theory shows the potential stress he faced every single day growing up and the anger that came about in his heart. So it makes the most factual sense that all of that anger, stress, abandonment, abuse, etc. increased the likelihood of him engaging in those hideous and vicious murders of criminal