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Sociology
The study of societies and how they are shaped by people. It also concerns itself with how society affects the behavior of the individuals that are part of them.
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social responsibility perspective
Sociology; Criminology
A viewpoint which holds that individuals are fundamentally responsible for their own behavior, and which maintains that they choose crime over other, more law-abiding, courses of ...
participant observation
Sociology; Criminology
A variety of strategies in data gathering in which the researcher observes a group by participating, to varying degrees, in the activities of the group.
dramaturgical perspective
Sociology; Criminology
A theoretical point of view which depicts human behavior as centered around the purposeful management of interpersonal impressions.
Daubert standard
Sociology; Criminology
A test of scientific acceptability applicable to the gathering of evidence in criminal cases.
anomie theory
Sociology; Criminology
A sociological approach which posits a disjuncture between socially and subculturally sanctioned means and goals as the cause of criminal behavior.
moral enterprise
Sociology; Criminology
A term which encompasses all the efforts a particular interest group makes to have its sense of propriety enacted into law.
penal couple
Sociology; Criminology
A term which describes the relationship between victim and criminal. Also, the two individuals most involved in the criminal act–the offender and the victim.
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