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Those which explain criminality by reference to offenders’ body types, inheritance, genetics, and/or external observable physical characteristics.
Industry:Sociology
Those which attempt to hold conditions (other than the intentionally introduced experimental intervention) constant.
Industry:Sociology
Those which affect the mind, mental processes, or emotions.
Industry:Sociology
Those derived from the medical sciences, including neurology, and which, like other psychological theories, focus on the individual as the unit of analysis.
Industry:Sociology
Those derived from the behavioral sciences and which focus on the individual as the unit of analysis. Psychological theories place the locus of crime causation within the personality of the individual offender.
Industry:Sociology
The various agencies of "justice," especially police, courts, and corrections, whose goal it is to apprehend, convict, punish, and rehabilitate law violators.
Industry:Sociology
The use of standardized, systematic procedures in the search for knowledge.
Industry:Sociology
Refers to problems in living which tend to follow from initial victimization.
Industry:Sociology
The unlawful use of force or violence by a group or an individual who has some connection to a foreign power or whose activities transcend national boundaries, against people or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.
Industry:Sociology
