Environmental factors that affect offenders and victims include the physical, social, family, community, economic, cultural and political environments in which individuals live. Impoverished physical, social and family environments have long been considered to be primary determinants of the develop...

Sociology deals with the ways that social structure and culture are related. Social structure is defined by a variety of ideas. The structure of a society can be seen as society's organization, such as its religious, political, or economic institutions, rules, routines, and relationships that creat...