Criminology

Criminology

The scientific study of the nature and causes of crime, the behavior of criminals, and the criminal-justice system.

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Criminology

Selective incapacitation

Sociology; Criminology

A social policy which seeks to protect society by incarcerating those individuals deemed to be the most dangerous.

Displacement

Sociology; Criminology

A shift of criminal activity from one spatial location to another.

Anomie

Sociology; Criminology

A social condition in which norms are uncertain or lacking.

A social policy approach that looks to develop greater understanding of crime and more effective crime prevention strategies through concern with the physical, organizational, and social environments ...

Computer virus

Sociology; Criminology

A set of computer instructions that propagates copies or versions of itself into computer programmes or data when it is executed.

Felony

Sociology; Criminology

A serious criminal offense; specifically one punishable by death or by incarceration in a prison facility for a year or more.

Power-control theory

Sociology; Criminology

A perspective which holds that the distribution of crime and delinquency within society is to some degree founded upon the consequences which power relationships within the wider society hold for ...