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Human conduct in violation of the criminal laws of a state, the federal government, or a local jurisdiction which has the power to make such laws.
Industry:Sociology
Holds that frustration, which is a natural consequence of living, is a root cause of crime. Criminal behavior can be a form of adaptation when it results in stress reduction.
Industry:Sociology
Having one cause. Theories which are uni-causal posit only one source for all that they attempt to explain.
Industry:Sociology
Government initiatives, programs, and plans intended to address problems in society. The "war on crime," for example, is a kind of generic (large-scale) social policy–one consisting of many smaller programs.
Industry:Sociology
Functional disorders of the mind or of the emotions involving anxiety, phobia, or other abnormal behavior.
Industry:Sociology
Fraud or embezzlement that occurs within or against financial institutions that are insured or regulated by the u. S. Government. Financial institution fraud may include commercial loan fraud, check fraud, counterfeit negotiable instruments, mortgage fraud, check kiting, and false credit applications.
Industry:Sociology
Facilities from which individuals can rarely come and go, and in which communal life is intense and circumscribed. Individuals in total institutions tend to eat, sleep, play, learn, and worship (if at all) together.
Industry:Sociology
Explanations for criminality that recognize that criminogenic influences have their greatest impact during the early stages of life, and which hold that experiences which children have shape them for the rest of their lives.
Industry:Sociology
Explain crime by reference to various aspects of the social fabric. They emphasize relationships between social institutions, and describe the types of behavior which tend to characterize groups of people as opposed to individuals.
Industry:Sociology
Equity trading based on confidential information about important events that may affect the price of the issue being traded.
Industry:Sociology
