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An ethical requirement of social scientific research which specifies that research subjects will be informed as to the nature of the research about to be conducted, their anticipated role in it, and the uses to which the data they provide will be put.
Industry:Sociology
A perspective which predicts that when social constraints on antisocial behavior are weakened or absent, delinquent behavior emerges. Rather than stressing causative factors in criminal behavior, control theory asks why people actually obey rules instead of breaking them.
Industry:Sociology
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 fortunate. Also called marxist or critical criminology.
Industry:Sociology
A perspective which holds that criminality is the result of conscious choice, and which predicts that individuals choose to commit crime when the benefits outweigh the costs of disobeying the law.
Industry:Sociology
A person who views and uses computers as objects for exploration and exploitation.
Industry:Sociology
A person with a personality disorder, especially one manifested in aggressively antisocial behavior, which is often said to be the result of a poorly developed superego.
Industry:Sociology
A sociological approach which posits a disjuncture between socially and subculturally sanctioned means and goals as the cause of criminal behavior.
Industry:Sociology
A term used by cesare lombroso to describe occasional criminals who were pulled into criminality primarily by environmental influences.
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
