upload
Pearson Prentice Hall
Industri: Printing & publishing
Number of terms: 12544
Number of blossaries: 0
Company Profile:
The study of the process by which human beings create an ideology of crime that sustains it (the notion of crime) as a concrete reality.
Industry:Sociology
The study of the contents of human consciousness without regard to external conventions nor prior assumptions.
Industry:Sociology
The study of the characteristics of population groups (demographics the characteristics of such groups usually expressed in statistical fashion).
Industry:Sociology
The study of pathological mental conditions, that is, mental illness.
Industry:Sociology
The study of likely futures as they impinge on crime and its control.
Industry:Sociology
The scientific study of crime, the criminal law, and components of the criminal justice system, including the police, courts, and corrections.
Industry:Sociology
Any illegal act for which knowledge of computer technology is involved for its investigation, perpetration, or prosecution.
Industry:Sociology
Any incident without color of right associated with computer technology in which a victim suffered or could have suffered loss and/or a perpetrator by intention made or could have made gain.
Industry:Sociology
An explanatory perspective that merges (or attempts to merge) concepts drawn from different sources.
Industry:Sociology
An interactionist perspective which sees continued crime as a consequence of limited opportunities for acceptable behavior which follow from the negative responses of society to those defined as offenders.
Industry:Sociology