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A crime control strategy which attempts "to diminish motivation for crime by increasing the perceived certainty, severity, or celerity of penalties. "
Industry:Sociology
A contemporary version of classical criminology which emphasizes deterrence and retribution with reduced emphasis on rehabilitation.
Industry:Sociology
A course of action that government takes in an effort to solve a problem or to achieve an end.
Industry:Sociology
A condition said to exist when a group is faced with social change, uneven development of culture, maladaptiveness, disharmony, conflict, and lack of consensus.
Industry:Sociology
A concept which compares society to a physical organism and sees criminality as an illness.
Industry:Sociology
A concept used by cesare lombroso to suggest that criminals are physiological throwbacks to earlier stages of human evolution. The term "atavism" is derived from the latin term atavus, which means "ancestor. "
Industry:Sociology
A collection of values and preferences which is communicated to subcultural participants through a process of socialization.
Industry:Sociology
A brand of rational choice theory which views criminal behavior "as a function of choices and decisions made within a context of situational constraints and opportunities. "
Industry:Sociology
