Criminology

Criminology

An interdisciplinary profession built around the scientific study of crime and criminal behavior, including forms, causes and legal aspects and control.

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Category: Criminology
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criminology

Sociology; Criminology

An interdisciplinary profession built around the scientific study of crime and criminal behavior, including their form, causes, legal aspects and control.

criminology

Law; General law

Criminology is a branch of Penal Law, dealing with crimes and punishment. It's more than mere delicts regarding illegal acts, but pure crimes, and anatomy of crimes.

criminology

Medical; Health care; Medicine

The study of crime and criminals with special reference to the personality factors and social conditions leading toward, or away from crime.

criminology

Law; Legal services; General law

The study of the cause, prevention, and punishment of crime.

criminology

Language; Dictionaries

A treatise on crime or the criminal population.

radical criminology

Sociology; Criminology

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 ...

environmental scanning

Sociology; Criminology

A systematic effort to identify in an elemental way future developments (trends or events) that could plausibly occur over the time horizon of interest, and that might impact ...

uniform crime reports (UCR)

Sociology; Criminology

A summation of crime statistics tallied annually by the federal bureau of investigation (fbi) and consisting primarily of data on crimes reported to the police and of arrests.

meta-analysis

Sociology; Criminology

A study of other studies about a particular topic of interest.

McNaughten rule

Sociology; Criminology

A standard for judging legal insanity which requires that either an offender did not know what he or she were doing, or that, if he or she did, that he or she did not know it was ...

substantial capacity test

Sociology; Criminology

A standard for judging legal insanity which requires that a person lack "the mental capacity needed to understand the wrongfulness of his act, or to conform his behavior to the ...

irresistible impulse test

Sociology; Criminology

A standard for judging legal insanity which holds that a defendant is not guilty of a criminal offense if the person, by virtue of their mental state or psychological condition, ...

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