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Those who suggest that, under certain circumstances involving criminal threats to public safety, the interests of society should take precedence over individual rights.
Industry:Sociology
Those who seek to protect personal freedoms in the face of criminal prosecution.
Industry:Sociology
Those which explain criminality by reference to offenders’ body types, inheritance, genetics, and/or external observable physical characteristics.
Industry:Sociology
Those which attempt to hold conditions (other than the intentionally introduced experimental intervention) constant.
Industry:Sociology
Those derived from the medical sciences, including neurology, and which, like other psychological theories, focus on the individual as the unit of analysis.
Industry:Sociology
Those derived from the behavioral sciences and which focus on the individual as the unit of analysis. Psychological theories place the locus of crime causation within the personality of the individual offender.
Industry:Sociology
Those aspects of the social bond which act to prevent individuals from committing crimes and keep them from engaging in deviance.
Industry:Sociology
The unlawful attack by one person upon another for the purpose of inflicting severe or aggravated bodily injury. See also simple assault.
Industry:Sociology
