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Any willful or malicious burning or attempt to burn, with or without intent to defraud, a dwelling house, public building, motor vehicle or aircraft, personal property of another, and so on.
Industry:Sociology
A sociological perspective on crime which suggests that the root cause of criminality can be found in a clash of values between variously socialized groups over what is acceptable or proper behavior.
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
A set of computer instructions that propagates copies or versions of itself into computer programs or data when it is executed.
Industry:Sociology
A prison designed by jeremy bentham which was to be a circular building with cells along the circumference, each clearly visible from a central location staffed by guards.
Industry:Sociology
A perspective which predicts that when social constraints on antisocial behavior are weakened or absent, delinquent behavior emerges. Rather than stressing causative factors in criminal behavior, control theory asks why people actually obey rules instead of breaking them.
Industry:Sociology
A perspective which holds that the causes of crime are rooted in social conditions which empower the wealthy and the politically well organized, but disenfranchise those less fortunate. Also called marxist or critical criminology.
Industry:Sociology
A person who views and uses computers as objects for exploration and exploitation.
Industry:Sociology
