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A form of terrorism that makes use of high technology, especially computers and the internet, in the planning and carrying out of terrorist attacks.
Industry:Sociology
A form of surgery, typically involving bone and especially the skull. Early instances of cranial trephination have been taken as evidence for primitive beliefs in spirit possession.
Industry:Sociology
A form of psychiatric treatment based upon psychoanalytical principles and techniques.
Industry:Sociology
A form of mental illness in which sufferers are said to be out of touch with reality.
Industry:Sociology
A form of control theory which suggests that a series of both internal and external factors contribute to law-abiding behavior.
Industry:Sociology
A foreign organization that engages in terrorist activity which threatens the security of u. S. Nationals or the national security of the united states and which is so designated by the u. S. Secretary of state.
Industry:Sociology
A finding that an offender is guilty of the criminal offense with which they are charged but, because of their prevailing mental condition, they are generally sent to psychiatric hospitals for treatment rather than to prison. Once they have been declared "cured," however, such offenders can be transferred to correctional facilities to serve out their sentences.
Industry:Sociology
A developing intellectual approach which emphasizes gender issues in the subject matter of criminology.
Industry:Sociology
A dea program that identifies the geographic source area of a heroin sample through the detection of specific chemical characteristics in the sample peculiar to the source area.
Industry:Sociology
