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  2. Criminology - Wikipedia

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    Marxist criminology, conflict criminology, and critical criminology claim that most relationships between state and citizen are non-consensual and, as such, criminal law is not necessarily representative of public beliefs and wishes: it is exercised in the interests of the ruling or dominant class.

  3. Dark figure of crime - Wikipedia

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    In criminology and sociology, the dark figure of crime, hidden figure of crime, or latent criminality [1] [2] is the amount of unreported or undiscovered crime. [ 3 ] Methodology

  4. 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.

  5. Public criminology - Wikipedia

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    Beyond the clarion calls to public criminology outlined above, there have been several forays into its actual praxis, with many groups and organizations dedicated to connecting public debates about the criminal justice system to contemporary research in criminology. For example, The Marshall Project was founded in 2014 by Neil Barsky and Bill ...

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Qualitative research in criminology - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, a common method used to analyze policy practices are case studies and historical examples. These can be local in a specific jurisdiction, on any scale up to and including international treaties. These case studies aid researchers to determine and anticipate potential outcomes of specific policy proposals.

  9. Criminal justice - Wikipedia

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    The functional study of criminal justice is at times distinct from criminology, which involves the study of crime as a social phenomenon, causes of crime, criminal behavior, and other aspects of crime; although in most cases today, criminal justice as a field of study is used as a synonym for criminology and the sociology of law.