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A social policy approach that looks to develop greater understanding of crime and more effective crime prevention strategies through concern with the physical, organizational, and social environments that make crime possible.
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
A serious criminal offense; specifically one punishable by death or by incarceration in a prison facility for a year or more.
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 scientific principle which requires that independent observers see the same thing under the same circumstances for observations to be regarded as valid.
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 scientific principle which holds that the same observations made at one time can be had again at a later time if all other conditions are the same.
Industry:Sociology
A psychological principle which holds that the frequency of any behavior can be increased or decreased through reward, punishment, and/or association with other stimuli.
Industry:Sociology
A psychological perspective that says people learn how to behave by modeling themselves after others whom they have the opportunity to observe.
Industry:Sociology
A prison designed by jeremy bentham which was to be a circular building with cells along the circumference, each clearly visible from a central location staffed by guards.
Industry:Sociology
