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Bulk Product
Hierarchical Display of Bulk product European Union > European construction > EU relations > Preparation for market Bulk product Concept of Bulk product See the dictionary definition of Bulk product. Characteristics of Bulk product [rtbs name=”xxx-xxx”] Resources Translation of Bulk […]
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Theories of Criminal Opportunity
Theories of Criminal Opportunity In the mid-1970s American sociologists Marcus Felson, Lawrence Cohen, and others changed the focus of criminological theory from explaining criminal motivation to explaining the occurrence of criminal events. They argued that criminal motivation alone was not sufficient to cause crime. In addition to motivation, the offender requires the opportunity to pursue…
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Environmental and Social Theories of Crime
Environmental and Social Theories of Crime The most common criminological theories attribute criminal motivation to environmental or social factors rather than biological or psychological traits. These theories may focus on social influences on crime or on economic factors. Social Causes One of the first theories describing the influence of social factors on crime came from…
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Psychological Theories of Crime
Psychological Theories of Crime Background To account for criminal motivation in people, criminologists have used various psychological theories that attempt to explain human intellectual and emotional development. These theories can be divided into three categories: (1) moral development theories, (2) social learning theories, and (3) personality theories. Moral development theories describe a sequence of developmental…
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Biological Theories of Crime
Biological Theories of Crime Background The idea that crime is caused by biological defects or deficiencies in the offender was not new when advanced by Lombroso, but it received its most emphatic statement in the work of the Italian school. The most influential attack on Lombroso’s work was conducted by British criminologist Charles Buckman Goring,…
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Goals of Criminology
Goals of Criminology The classical criminologists of the 18th century were primarily concerned with ending brutality and inequality against criminals by enforcing limitations on government power. They believed that criminal behavior was the product of the offender’s rational choice, and that crime could be prevented through the speedy and certain application of penalties that attached…
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Development of Criminology
Development of Criminology The discipline of criminology has evolved in three phases, beginning in the 18th century. Although crime and criminals have been around for as long as societies have existed, the systematic study of these phenomena did not begin until the late 1700s. Prior to that time, most explanations of crime equated it with…