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Critical security studies (CSS) is an academic discipline within security studies which draws on critical theory to revise and, at times, reject the narrow focus of mainstream approaches to security.
In criminology and urban sociology, much attention has been paid to the social networks among criminal actors. For example, murders can be seen as a series of ...
The Central Security Service (CSS) is a combat support agency of the United States Department of Defense which was established in 1972 to integrate the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Service Cryptologic Components (SCC) of the United States Armed Forces in the field of signals intelligence, cryptology, and information assurance at the tactical level. [2]
[2] According to Gibson, the term criminology was most likely coined in 1885 by Italian law professor Raffaele Garofalo as Criminologia . [2] In the late 19th century, French anthropologist Paul Topinard used the analogous French term Criminologie . [3] Criminology grew substantially as a discipline in the first quarter of the twentieth century.
Lawrence W. Sherman (born October 25, 1949) is an experimental criminologist and police educator who defined evidence-based policing.Since October 2024 he has served as Chief Executive Officer of Benchmark Cambridge, a global police reform organisation.
The correlates of crime explore the associations of specific non-criminal factors with specific crimes.. The field of criminology studies the dynamics of crime. Most of these studies use correlational data; that is, they attempt to identify various factors are associated with specific categories of criminal behavior.
Advocates of public criminology argue that the energies of criminologists should be directed towards "conducting and disseminating research on crime, law, and deviance in dialogue with affected communities." [3] Public criminologists focus on reshaping the image of the criminal and work with communities to find answers to pressing questions. [9]
[1] [2] The Florida State University College of Criminology and Criminal Justice holds editorship of the journal, [3] and the current editors-in-chief are Cynthia Lum and Christopher Koper. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 4.333, ranking it 9th out of 61 journals in the category "Criminology ...