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Pearson Prentice Hall
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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 which affect the mind, mental processes, or emotions.
Industry:Sociology
Those that are the property of the federal government, those that belong to financial institutions, or are accessed across state lines without authorization.
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 world's largest computer network.
Industry:Sociology
The various agencies of "justice," especially police, courts, and corrections, whose goal it is to apprehend, convict, punish, and rehabilitate law violators.
Industry:Sociology
The use of standardized, systematic procedures in the search for knowledge.
Industry:Sociology