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Also know as “moral crusaders.” People with enough money and power to persuade society to develop or to enforce laws against individuals, groups or behaviours they label as deviant.
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The measure used in twin and adoption studies to determine the degree to which related pairs exhibited criminal behaviour.
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A concept associated with the Classical School of criminology, which posits that rational decisions produce the most beneficial outcomes for individuals and that actions taken by people and the government should be assessed in terms of the how much and how many people they benefit.
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A term used to refer to the narrative used to package crime news, which is easily understood, focuses on the existence of something that is portrayed extraordinary and “bad” that affects many people, and identifies a clear solution.
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The multidisciplinary social science focused on the scientific study of crime, which emerged as a formal discipline in Canada between the 1950s and 1960s.
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The philosophy that underpins Positivist School thinking, which viewed behaviour as an inherited trait related to individuals’ genetic makeup.
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Term used to refer to the ability of individuals to overcome traumatic experiences.
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The name given to the school of thought in criminology that embraced the idea of born criminals and viewed offenders as atavisms.
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The solution to crime problems according to the Classical School.
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The solution to crime problems according to the Positivist School.
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The name given to the school of thought in criminology that considered offenders as free-willed individuals and viewed human behaviour as the result of hedonistic calculus.
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A so-called science, inspired by Positivist School’s notion that bad genes that led to “diseases” like feeble-mindedness, homosexuality, and criminality could and should be eliminated from the human gene pool through selective breeding—i.e., through sterilization, segregation, and extermination.
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The initials for the most popular source of police data in Canada.
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The initials of the most commonly cited Canadian victimization survey.
