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The use of standardized, systematic procedures in the search for knowledge.
Industry:Sociology
Those derived from the behavioral sciences and which focus on the individual as the unit of analysis. Psychological theories place the locus of crime causation within the personality of the individual offender.
Industry:Sociology
Those which explain criminality by reference to offenders’ body types, inheritance, genetics, and/or external observable physical characteristics.
Industry:Sociology
Those derived from the medical sciences, including neurology, and which, like other psychological theories, focus on the individual as the unit of analysis.
Industry:Sociology
Undesirable behavioral consequences likely to decrease the frequency of occurrence of that behavior.
Industry:Sociology
The pattern of social organization and the interrelationships between institutions characteristic of a society.
Industry:Sociology
The primary male sex hormone, produced in the testes and functioning to control secondary sex characteristics and sexual drive.
Industry:Sociology
The process of converting illegally earned assets, originating as cash, to one or more alternative forms to conceal such incriminating factors as illegal origin and true ownership.
Industry:Sociology
The legal imposition of a sentence of death upon a convicted offender. Another term for the death penalty.
Industry:Sociology
