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A social scientific technique which studies a population that shares common characteristics, over time. Cohort analysis usually begins at birth and traces the development of cohort members until they reach a certain age.
Industry:Sociology
A brand of rational choice theory which suggests that life-styles contribute significantly to both the volume and type of crime found in any society.
Industry:Sociology
A social science data-gathering technique which involves the use of questionnaires.
Industry:Sociology
A social policy which seeks to protect society by incarcerating those individuals deemed to be the most dangerous.
Industry:Sociology
A social policy approach that looks to develop greater understanding of crime and more effective crime prevention strategies through concern with the physical, organizational, and social environments that make crime possible.
Industry:Sociology
A set of computer instructions that propagates copies or versions of itself into computer programs or data when it is executed.
Industry:Sociology
A serious criminal offense; specifically one punishable by death or by incarceration in a prison facility for a year or more.
Industry:Sociology
A series of interrelated propositions that attempt to describe, explain, predict, and ultimately to control some class of events. A theory gains explanatory power from inherent logical consistency, and is "tested" by how well it describes and predicts reality.
Industry:Sociology
