Social epidemiology

The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations; and the application of this study to the control of health problems.

epidemiology

Health care; Pharmacy

The study of the distribution and determinants of disease within human populations.

epidemiology

Plants; Plant pathology

The study of factors influencing the initiation, development, and spread of infectious disease; the study of disease in populations of plants.

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, ...