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An interdisciplinary profession built around the scientific study of crime and criminal behavior, including their form, causes, legal aspects and control.
Industry:Sociology
An international drug control policy which aims to stop drugs from entering the country illegally.
Industry:Sociology
An ethical requirement of social scientific research which stipulates that research data not be shared outside of the research environment.
Industry:Sociology
An ethical requirement of social scientific research which specifies that research subjects will be informed as to the nature of the research about to be conducted, their anticipated role in it, and the uses to which the data they provide will be put.
Industry:Sociology
An emerging perspective which insists upon a pragmatic assessment of crime and associated problems.
Industry:Sociology
An emerging perspective which emphasizes the importance of geographic location and architectural features as they are associated with the prevalence of criminal victimization. (note: as the term has been understood to date, environmental criminology is not the study of environmental crime, but rather a perspective which stresses how crime varies from place to place. )
Industry:Sociology
An early set of laws established by the Babylonian king Hammurabi around the year 2000 b. C.
Industry:Sociology
An attack without a weapon resulting either in minor injury or in undetermined injury requiring less than two days of hospitalization.
Industry:Sociology
An approach to understanding human activity which holds that behavior is determined by consequences it produces for the individual.
Industry:Sociology
