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A set of computer instructions that propagates copies or versions of itself into computer programs or data when it is executed.
Industry:Sociology
A serious criminal offense; specifically one punishable by death or by incarceration in a prison facility for a year or more.
Industry:Sociology
A sequential record of computer system activities that enables auditors to reconstruct, review, and examine the sequence of states and activities surrounding each event in one or more related transactions from inception to output of final results back to inception.
Industry:Sociology
A relatively informal type of criminal justice case processing which makes use of local community resources rather than requiring traditional forms of official intervention.
Industry:Sociology
A postmodern perspective which stresses "remedies and restoration rather than prison, punishment and victim neglect. "
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 multidisciplinary branch of operations research whose principle aim "is to facilitate long-range planning based on 1. Forecasting from the past supported by mathematical models; 2. Cross-disciplinary treatment of its subject matter; 3. Systematic use of expert judgment, and; 4. A systems-analytical approach to its problems. "
Industry:Sociology
A group of individuals sharing certain significant social characteristics in common, such as sex, time, and place of birth.
Industry:Sociology
