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An approach to understanding crime that draws attention to the ways people develop over the course of their lives.
Industry:Sociology
An approach to criminological theorizing that attempts to link the structure and organization of human community to interactions with its localized environment.
Industry:Sociology
An approach to crime control which focuses on effective ways for developing a shared consensus on critical issues which have the potential to seriously affect the quality of life.
Industry:Sociology
An analytical perspective on social organization which holds that most members of society agree as to what is right and what is wrong, and that the various elements of society work together in unison toward a common and shared vision of the greater good.
Industry:Sociology
An analytical approach to social organization which holds that a multiplicity of values and beliefs exist in any complex society, but that most social actors agree on the usefulness of law as a formal means of dispute resolution.
Industry:Sociology
An analytical perspective on social organization which holds that conflict is a fundamental aspect of social life itself and can never be fully resolved.
Industry:Sociology
Also known as interactionist perspectives, emphasize the give-and-take which occurs between offender, victim, and society–and specifically between the offender and agents of formal social control such as the police, courts, and correctional organizations.
Industry:Sociology
Also known as the age of reason. A social movement which arose during the 18th century, and built upon ideas such as empiricism, rationality, free will, humanism, and natural law.
Industry:Sociology
Also commonly called the "chicago school" of criminology, is a type of sociological approach which emphasizes demographics (the characteristics of population groups) and geographics (the mapped location of such groups relative to one another) and sees the social disorganization which characterizes delinquency areas as a major cause of criminality and victimization.
Industry:Sociology
