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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victim-proneness

Sociology; Criminology

The degree of an individual's likelihood of victimization.

victimogenesis

Sociology; Criminology

The contributory background of a victim as a result of which he or she becomes prone to victimization.

ethnic succession

Sociology; Criminology

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

cyberspace

Sociology; Criminology

The computer-created matrix of virtual possibilities, including on-line services, wherein human beings interact with each other and with technology itself.

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 behavior holds value to any individual undertaking it according to the amount of pleasure or pain that it can be expected to produce for that ...