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An approach to understanding human activity which holds that behavior is determined by consequences it produces for the individual.
Industry:Sociology
An approach to understanding crime that draws attention to the ways people develop over the course of their lives.
Industry:Sociology
An approach to criminological theorizing that attempts to link the structure and organization of human community to interactions with its localized environment.
Industry:Sociology
A form of psychiatric treatment based upon psychoanalytical principles and techniques.
Industry:Sociology
A form of mental illness in which sufferers are said to be out of touch with reality.
Industry:Sociology
A developing intellectual approach which emphasizes gender issues in the subject matter of criminology.
Industry:Sociology
A death wish.
Industry:Sociology
An analytical approach to social organization which holds that a multiplicity of values and beliefs exist in any complex society, but that most social actors agree on the usefulness of law as a formal means of dispute resolution.
Industry:Sociology
A sociological perspective which emphasizes the contribution made by variously socialized cultural groups to the phenomenon of crime.
Industry:Sociology
A criminological perspective with roots in the early 1800s which seeks to uncover correlations between crime rates and other types of demographic data.
Industry:Sociology