While the field of criminology is rooted in sociological tradition, biosocial criminology has emerged as a promising perspective in studying antisocial behaviors. This perspective encompasses research from other scientific disciplines, namely molecular genetics, evolutionary psychology, neurology, psychiatry, ...
Social animals including humans live in groups to optimise the multiplicative benefits of social interactions such as protection, coordination, cooperation, access to information, and fitness, while balancing the competition, disease risk, and stress costs of group living1,2,3. Social interactions are ...
The analysis explores theories and explanations about how deviance takes place, how it developed, and why it is maintained. Other chapters discuss variations in the distribution and rate of deviant acts within society and how theory can and cannot account for these known variations. Tables, figures...
Explain the importance of social solidarity for Durkheim. In what ways did it influence his thinking on labor, religion, suicide, and crime? What was an impact of Emile Durkheim's suicide theory? How did Durkheim influence sociological ...
Several explanations for these trends come from the notion of the civilizing process by which states take control of public violence between mostly youngmen and replace it with state controlled reduced violence away from the public eye. This chapter reviews some specific examples of how cultures may...
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Social control theory has become one of the more widely accepted explanations in the field of criminology in its attempt to account for rates in crime and deviant behavior. Unlike theories that seek to explain why people engage in deviant behavior, social control theories approach deviancy from a...
explanations of crime to the social environment, the Chicago School analyzed how social control broke down within neighborhoods, while Du Bois analyzed how racist social and economic exclusion of Black communities led to crime. Du Bois’s criminological theories of social disharmony and racial ...
What are the likely reasons for the very patchy support of the ASBO? The article examines a range of explanations, ... E Burney - 《Howard Journal of Criminal Justice》 被引量: 75发表: 2002年 Talking Child Protection Summary: In the United Kingdom, following the death of Victoria Climbi...
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