- Industry: Printing & publishing
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Are time-honored ways of doing things. While they carry the force of tradition, their violation is unlikely to threaten the survival of the group. See also mores.
Industry:Sociology
Are behavioral proscriptions covering potentially serious violations of a group's values, and would probably include strictures against murder, rape, and robbery. See also folkways.
Industry:Sociology
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
An law enforcement agency established under title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1967.
Industry:Sociology
Any act punishable by law which is committed through opportunity created in the course of an occupation that is legal.
Industry:Sociology
Any illegal act for which knowledge of computer technology is involved for its investigation, perpetration, or prosecution.
Industry:Sociology
Any incident without color of right associated with computer technology in which a victim suffered or could have suffered loss and/or a perpetrator by intention made or could have made gain.
Industry:Sociology
An explanatory perspective that merges (or attempts to merge) concepts drawn from different sources.
Industry:Sociology
An interactionist perspective which sees continued crime as a consequence of limited opportunities for acceptable behavior which follow from the negative responses of society to those defined as offenders.
Industry:Sociology
