Abstract Although some criminologists believe that individual traits and characteristics may play a role in the cause of criminals' antisocial behavior, most believe that social factors are the root cause of crime. Differential Association Theory is one of several theories in criminology (Sociological Theories of Crime), it has the view that crime arises from society's social structure or organization. ... Other scholars such as [Kor78] have strongly rejected the differential association theory principles that agree with social control. ... Another strength of differential associati...

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Some justifications of general violence are connected to theories that state the foundation of violence is within the individual or within their social environment. ... Structural violence refers to an orderly method in which social structures either harm or to somewhat disadvantage individuals. ... "Structural violence is visited upon all of those whose social status denies them access to the fruits of scientific and social progress" (Farmer, 2001). ... Secondly it has been argued that violence is deviant, legally, socially or morally, from the mainstream of human activity. ... Violence ha...

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(Barberet, 2010) In essence, feminist victimology concentrates on the social construction of gender, and heavily focuses upon "uncovering, assessing and responding to the victimisation of women and, in particular, men's violence against women" (Newburn, 2013, pp. 322). ... According to Smart, (1989) in a research analysis of the criminal justice system, both radical and social feminists observed that the law was biased against women and in favour of men. ... Still, radical victimology has drawn attention to the theoretical victimisation of the powerless by exposing the structura...

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