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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Ethnic succession

Sociology; Criminology

The continuing process whereby one immigrant or ethnic group succeeds another through assumption of a particular position in society.

Somatotyping

Sociology; Criminology

The classification of human beings into types according to body build and other physical characteristics.

Internal validity

Sociology; Criminology

The certainty that experimental interventions did indeed cause the changes observed in the study group; also the control over confounding factors which tend to invalidate the results of an ...

Hedonistic calculus or utilitarianism

Sociology; Criminology

The belief, first proposed by jeremy bentham, that behaviour holds value to any individual undertaking it according to the amount of pleasure or pain that it can be expected to produce for that ...

Social process theories

Sociology; Criminology

Also known as interactionist perspectives, emphasise the give-and-take which occurs between offender, victim, and society–and specifically between the offender and agents of formal social control ...

Enlightenment

Sociology; Criminology

Also known as the age of reason. A social movement which arose during the 18th century, and built upon ideas such as empiricism, rationality, free will, humanism, and natural law.