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A finding that an offender is guilty of the criminal offense with which they are charged but, because of their prevailing mental condition, they are generally sent to psychiatric hospitals for treatment rather than to prison. Once they have been declared "cured," however, such offenders can be transferred to correctional facilities to serve out their sentences.
Industry:Sociology
A developing intellectual approach which emphasizes gender issues in the subject matter of criminology.
Industry:Sociology
A dea program that identifies the geographic source area of a heroin sample through the detection of specific chemical characteristics in the sample peculiar to the source area.
Industry:Sociology
A criminological perspective with roots in the early 1800s which seeks to uncover correlations between crime rates and other types of demographic data.
Industry:Sociology
A criminological perspective operative in the late 1700s and early 1800s which had its roots in the enlightenment, and which held that men and women are rational beings, that crime is the result of the exercise of free will, and that punishment can be effective in reducing the incidence of crime since it negates the pleasure to be derived from crime commission.
Industry:Sociology
A criminal offense which is less serious than a felony. One punishable by incarceration, usually in a local confinement facility, typically for a year or less.
Industry:Sociology
A criminal sanction, in particular the payment of compensation by the offender to the victim.
Industry:Sociology
A crime control strategy which attempts to reduce criminal opportunities by changing people's routine activities, increasing guardianship, or by incapacitating convicted offenders.
Industry:Sociology
A crime control strategy which attempts "to forestall development of criminality by improving early life experiences and channeling child and adolescent development" into desirable directions.
Industry:Sociology
