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Explanations for criminality that recognize that criminogenic influences have their greatest impact during the early stages of life, and which hold that experiences which children have shape them for the rest of their lives.
Industry:Sociology
Explain crime by reference to various aspects of the social fabric. They emphasize relationships between social institutions, and describe the types of behavior which tend to characterize groups of people as opposed to individuals.
Industry:Sociology
Distinctions made between individuals on the basis of important defining social characteristics.
Industry:Sociology
Desirable behavioral consequences likely to increase the frequency of occurrence of that behavior.
Industry:Sociology
Designs approaches to research which, although less powerful than experimental designs, are deemed worthy of use where better designs are not feasible.
Industry:Sociology
Describe, summarize, or highlight the relationships within data which have been gathered.
Industry:Sociology
The continuing process whereby one immigrant or ethnic group succeeds another through assumption of a particular position in society.
Industry:Sociology
Culturally available justifications which can provide criminal offenders with the means to disavow responsibility for their behavior.
Industry:Sociology
Criminal homicide which is unplanned, and which is often described as a "crime of passion. "
Industry:Sociology
