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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
A brand of rational choice theory which suggests that life-styles contribute significantly to both the volume and type of crime found in any society.
Industry:Sociology
A criminological perspective operative in the late 1700s and early 1800s which had its roots in the enlightenment, and which held that men and women are rational beings, that crime is the result of the exercise of free will, and that punishment can be effective in reducing the incidence of crime since it negates the pleasure to be derived from crime commission.
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
A social science data-gathering technique which involves the use of questionnaires.
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
A social policy which seeks to protect society by incarcerating those individuals deemed to be the most dangerous.
Industry:Sociology
A criminal sanction, in particular the payment of compensation by the offender to the victim.
Industry:Sociology
Acts defined by law as criminal and committed by state officials in the pursuit of their job as representatives of the state.
Industry:Sociology
