- Industry: Printing & publishing
- Number of terms: 12544
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A term developed by ernst kretschmer to describe a particular relationship between body build and personality type. The cycloid personality, which was associated with a heavy-set, soft type of body, was said to vacillate between normality and abnormality.
Industry:Sociology
A technique which assesses the risks and opportunities facing those who plan for the future.
Industry:Sociology
A technique intended to predict future outcomes, and which builds upon environmental scanning by attempting to assess the likelihood of a variety of possible outcomes once important trends have been identified.
Industry:Sociology
A systematic effort to identify in an elemental way future developments (trends or events) that could plausibly occur over the time horizon of interest, and that might impact one’s area of concern.
Industry:Sociology
A standard for judging legal insanity which requires that a person lack "the mental capacity needed to understand the wrongfulness of his act, or to conform his behavior to the requirements of the law. "
Industry:Sociology
A term which encompasses all the efforts a particular interest group makes to have its sense of propriety enacted into law.
Industry:Sociology
A term which describes the relationship between victim and criminal. Also, the two individuals most involved in the criminal act–the offender and the victim.
Industry:Sociology
A term used by the drug enforcement administration (dea) to refer to "broad categories or classes of controlled substances other than cocaine, opiates, and cannabis products. " amphetamines, methamphetamines, pcp (phencyclidine), lsd, methcathinone, and "designer drugs" are all considered "dangerous drugs. "
Industry:Sociology
A standard for judging legal insanity which holds that a defendant is not guilty of a criminal offense if the person, by virtue of their mental state or psychological condition, was not able to resist committing the action in question.
Industry:Sociology
A standard for judging legal insanity which holds that "an accused is not criminally responsible if his unlawful act was the product of mental disease or mental defect. "
Industry:Sociology
