3 Terms
Home > Industry/Domain > Sociology > Criminology
Criminology
The scientific study of the nature and causes of crime, the behavior of criminals, and the criminal-justice system.
Industry: Sociology
Add a new termContributors in Criminology
Criminology
statutory law
Sociology; Criminology
Law in the form of statutes or formal written strictures, made by a legislature or governing body with the power to make law.
victim-precipitated homicides
Sociology; Criminology
Killings in which the "victim" was the first to commence the interaction or was the first to resort to physical violence.
psychoanalytic criminology
Sociology; Criminology
Is a psychiatric approach developed by the austrian psychiatrist sigmund freud which emphasizes the role of personality in human behavior, and which sees deviant behavior as the result of ...
primary deviance
Sociology; Criminology
Initial deviance often undertaken to deal with transient problems in living.
discrediting information
Sociology; Criminology
Information which is inconsistent with the managed impressions being communicated in a given situation.
born criminals
Sociology; Criminology
Individuals who are born with a genetic predilection toward criminality.
trafficking
Sociology; Criminology
Includes manufacturing, distributing, dispensing, importing, and exporting (or possession with intent to do the same) a controlled substance or a counterfeit substance.
