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  2. John L. Hagan - Wikipedia

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    John L. Hagan is an American sociologist focusing on criminology. He is currently the John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University and University Professor Emeritus of Law and Sociology at University of Toronto and also formerly the Dahlstrom Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Law at University of North Carolina (1994-96).

  3. Power-control theory of gender and delinquency - Wikipedia

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    Power-control theory differs from other control theories that view crime as a cause of low social status (cited from book). This theory compares gender and parental control mechanisms in two different types of families; patriarchal and egalitarian to explain the differences in self-reported male and female misconduct.

  4. Crime prevention - Wikipedia

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    Tertiary prevention is used after a crime has occurred in order to prevent successive incidents. Such measures can be seen in the implementation of new security policies following acts of terrorism such as the September 11, 2001 attacks. Situational crime prevention uses techniques focusing on reducing on the opportunity to commit a crime. Some ...

  5. Social network analysis in criminology - Wikipedia

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    Social network analysis in criminology views social relationships in terms of network theory, consisting of nodes (representing individual actors within the network) and ties (which represent relationships between the individuals, such as offender movement, sub offenders, crime groups, etc.).

  6. Category:Criminology - Wikipedia

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    Self-control theory of crime; Serial crime; Sexual predator; Sexual psychopath; Sexual violence; Sexually violent predator laws; Signal crime; Signature crime; Situational offender; Social control theory; Social disorganization theory; Social network analysis in criminology; Sociobiological theories of rape; Somatotype and constitutional psychology

  7. Criminology - Wikipedia

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    Such rational choice theories, linked to neoliberalism, have been at the basics of crime prevention through environmental design and underpin the Market Reduction Approach to theft [59] by Mike Sutton, which is a systematic toolkit for those seeking to focus attention on "crime facilitators" by tackling the markets for stolen goods [60] that ...

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  9. Crime prevention through environmental design - Wikipedia

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    Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) is an agenda for manipulating the built environment to create safer neighborhoods. It originated in the contiguous United States around 1960 when urban designers recognized that urban renewal strategies were risking the social framework needed for self-policing.