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2. Forensic social work - Wikipedia

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   Forensic social work is the application of social work to questions and issues relating to the law and legal systems. [1] It is a type of social work that involves the application of social work principles and practices in legal, criminal, and civil contexts.

3. Criminal justice - Wikipedia

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   Over time, scholars of criminal justice began to include criminology, sociology, and psychology, among others, to provide a more comprehensive view of the criminal justice system and the root causes of crime. Criminal justice studies now combine the practical and technical policing skills with a study of social deviance as a whole.

4. Criminology - Wikipedia

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   Criminology is a multidisciplinary field in both the behavioural and social sciences, which draws primarily upon the research of sociologists, political scientists, economists, legal sociologists, psychologists, philosophers, psychiatrists, social workers, biologists, social anthropologists, scholars of law and jurisprudence, as well as the ...

5. Peacemaking criminology - Wikipedia

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   Peacemaking criminology is a non-violent movement against oppression, social injustice and violence as found within criminology, criminal justice and society in general. . With its emphasis on inter-personal, intra-personal and spiritual integration, it is well connected to the emerging perspective of positive crimino

6. Social network analysis in criminology - Wikipedia

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   Centrality measures are used to determine the relative importance of a vertex within the overall network (i.e. how influential a person is within a criminal network or, for locations, how important an area is to a criminal's behavior). There are four main centrality measures used in criminology network analysis:

7. Social control theory - Wikipedia

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   Thus, morality is created in the construction of social order, assigning costs and consequences to certain choices and defining some as evil, immoral and/or illegal. [1] Social control plays a crucial role in providing a more productive and harmonious community. It contributes to the growth of an individual, and the progression of the community.