Exposure to Violence at Home and Bullying in School: A Test of an Additional Layer of General Strain Theory
Exposure to Violence at Home and Bullying in School: A Test of an Additional Layer of General Strain Theory
Hyunin Baek Sungil Han Randy Seepersad a New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USAb University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USAc The University of The West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad & TobagoHyunin Baek is an Associate Professor at the Department of Criminal Justice at New Mexico State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University of Louisville. His research interests include internet deviance, juvenile and adult deviance, police officer’s organizational commitment and competency, confidence in the police, fear of crime, bullying victimization and perpetration, and testing criminological theories.Sungil Han is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research interest includes public confidence in the police, fear of crime, immigration and crime, and issues related to communities and crime.Randy Seepersad is a Criminologist and Lecturer at the University of the West Indies. Dr. Seepersad received his MPhil in Social and Developmental Psychology from the University of Cambridge and his PhD in Criminology from the University of Toronto. He was National Author for Trinidad and Tobago for the 2012 United Nations Development Programme’s Caribbean Human Development Report, and co-author of the 2006 and 2012 Jamaica National Crime Victimization Surveys as well as the 2011 Capacity Assessment of Forensic Laboratories in CARICOM Member States. Dr Seepersad’s research interests include economic deprivation and crime, youth violence and delinquency, and criminal gangs.