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A form of psychiatric treatment based upon psychoanalytical principles and techniques.
Industry:Sociology
A perspective which holds that the causes of crime are rooted in social conditions which empower the wealthy and the politically well organized, but disenfranchise those less fortunate. Also called marxist or critical criminology.
Industry:Sociology
A perspective which holds that the distribution of crime and delinquency within society is to some degree founded upon the consequences which power relationships within the wider society hold for domestic settings, and for the everyday relationships between men, women, and children within the context of family life.
Industry:Sociology
A series of interrelated propositions that attempt to describe, explain, predict, and ultimately to control some class of events. A theory gains explanatory power from inherent logical consistency, and is "tested" by how well it describes and predicts reality.
Industry:Sociology
A set of computer instructions that propagates copies or versions of itself into computer programs or data when it is executed.
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
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
An early set of laws established by the babylonian king hammurabi around the year 2000 b. C.
Industry:Sociology
The lifelong process of social experience whereby individuals acquire the cultural patterns of their society.
Industry:Sociology
