the view that the criminal justice system is biased in favour of women, so that they are less likely than men to be charged, convicted or punished
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large bureaucratic organisatons, often with millions of members, run by a formal hierarchy of professional priests and claiming a monopoly of the truth
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a belief system that attaches sacred qualities to society itself and makes the nation-state the object of religious or quasi-religious worship
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the shared norms, values, beliefs and knowledge that make cooperation between individuals possible - integrates society by giving individuals a sense of belonging to something greater than themselves
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according to Stark and Bainbridge, when real rewards are scarce or unobtainable, religion compensates us by promising supernatural ones - e.g.: immortality as it is unobtainable
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a neo-Marxist approach that combines ideas from traditional Marxism and labelling theory to explain crime in capitalist society
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loose-knit and usually small religious or spiritual groups of individuals with similar interest
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where religion provides a focal point for the defence of national, ethnic or other group identity in a struggle against an external force such as a hostile foreign power
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the process of moving from one culture to another
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those things that are learnt and shared by a society or group and transmitted from generation to generation through socialisation, including shared norm, values, knowledge, beliefs and skills
