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A term used by cesare lombroso to describe occasional criminals who were pulled into criminality primarily by environmental influences.
Industry:Sociology
A technique which assesses the risks and opportunities facing those who plan for the future.
Industry:Sociology
A technique intended to predict future outcomes, and which builds upon environmental scanning by attempting to assess the likelihood of a variety of possible outcomes once important trends have been identified.
Industry:Sociology
A systematic effort to identify in an elemental way future developments (trends or events) that could plausibly occur over the time horizon of interest, and that might impact one’s area of concern.
Industry:Sociology
A standard for judging legal insanity which requires that either an offender did not know what he or she were doing, or that, if he or she did, that he or she did not know it was wrong.
Industry:Sociology
A standard for judging legal insanity which requires that a person lack "the mental capacity needed to understand the wrongfulness of his act, or to conform his behavior to the requirements of the law. "
Industry:Sociology
A standard for judging legal insanity which holds that a defendant is not guilty of a criminal offense if the person, by virtue of their mental state or psychological condition, was not able to resist committing the action in question.
Industry:Sociology
A standard for judging legal insanity which holds that "an accused is not criminally responsible if his unlawful act was the product of mental disease or mental defect. "
Industry:Sociology
A special class of criminal homicide whereby an offender may be charged with first-degree murder whenever his or her criminal activity results in another person's death.
Industry:Sociology
