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  2. Criminology - Wikipedia

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    Criminology (from Latin crimen ... Sigmund Freud talks about how the unconscious desire for pain relates to psychoanalysis in his essay, ... Introduction to sociology ...

  3. Charles Buckman Goring - Wikipedia

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    Goring's crowning achievement was The English Convict: A Statistical Study, one of the most comprehensive criminological works of its time.It was first published in 1913, and set out to establish whether there were any significant physical or mental abnormalities among the criminal classes that set them apart from ordinary men, as suggested by Cesare Lombroso.

  4. Anthony Walsh (criminologist) - Wikipedia

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    Anthony Walsh is an American criminologist and professor emeritus at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho.He was educated at Eastern Michigan University (B.A. in sociology, 1975), the University of Toledo (M.A. in medical sociology, 1977), and Bowling Green State University (Ph.D. in criminology, 1983). [1]

  5. Criminal psychology - Wikipedia

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    Criminal psychology, also referred to as criminological psychology, is the study of the views, thoughts, intentions, actions and reactions of criminals and suspects. [1] [2] It is a subfield of criminology and applied psychology.

  6. Psychoanalytic criminology - Wikipedia

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    Psychoanalytic criminology is a method of studying crime and criminal behaviour that draws from Freudian psychoanalysis. This school of thought examines personality and the psyche (particularly the unconscious) for motive in crime. [1] Other areas of interest are the fear of crime and the act of punishment. [2]

  7. Criminal justice - Wikipedia

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    The LEAA provided grants for criminology research, focusing on social aspects of crime. By the 1970s, there were 729 academic programs in criminology and criminal justice in the United States. [16] Largely thanks to the Law Enforcement Education Program, criminal justice students numbered over 100,000 by 1975.

  8. Critical theory - Wikipedia

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    Critical criminology applies critical theory to criminology. Critical criminology examines the genesis of crime and the nature of justice in relation power, privilege, and social status. These include factors such as class, race, gender, and sexuality. Legal and penal systems are understood to reproduce and uphold systems of social inequality.

  9. Public-order crime - Wikipedia

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    In criminology, public-order crime is defined by Siegel (2004) as "crime which involves acts that interfere with the operations of society and the ability of people to function efficiently", i.e., it is behaviour that has been labelled criminal because it is contrary to shared norms, social values, and customs.