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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 learning theory
Sociology; Criminology
A psychological perspective that says people learn how to behave by modeling themselves after others whom they have the opportunity to observe.
three-strikes
Sociology; Criminology
A provision of some criminal statutes which mandates life imprisonment for criminals convicted of three violent felonies or serious drug offenses.
panopticon
Sociology; Criminology
A prison designed by jeremy bentham which was to be a circular building with cells along the circumference, each clearly visible from a central location staffed by guards.
restorative justice
Sociology; Criminology
A postmodern perspective which stresses "remedies and restoration rather than prison, punishment and victim neglect. "
social control theory
Sociology; Criminology
A perspective which predicts that when social constraints on antisocial behavior are weakened or absent, delinquent behavior emerges. Rather than stressing causative factors in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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