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An law enforcement agency established under title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1967.
Industry:Sociology
Any act punishable by law which is committed through opportunity created in the course of an occupation that is legal.
Industry:Sociology
An emerging perspective which emphasizes the importance of geographic location and architectural features as they are associated with the prevalence of criminal victimization. (note: as the term has been understood to date, environmental criminology is not the study of environmental crime, but rather a perspective which stresses how crime varies from place to place. )
Industry:Sociology
An attack without a weapon resulting either in minor injury or in undetermined injury requiring less than two days of hospitalization.
Industry:Sociology
An approach to understanding human activity which holds that behavior is determined by consequences it produces for the individual.
Industry:Sociology
An approach to understanding crime that draws attention to the ways people develop over the course of their lives.
Industry:Sociology
An approach to criminological theorizing that attempts to link the structure and organization of human community to interactions with its localized environment.
Industry:Sociology
An approach to crime control which focuses on effective ways for developing a shared consensus on critical issues which have the potential to seriously affect the quality of life.
Industry:Sociology
An analytical perspective on social organization which holds that most members of society agree as to what is right and what is wrong, and that the various elements of society work together in unison toward a common and shared vision of the greater good.
Industry:Sociology
