... traditional explanations of violence aim to account for the regularity of the various forms of isolated and self-contained violent incidents in such singular units, such as gender, class and ethnicity, which in turn they all relate to differences in biology, psychology, sociology, and culture. Accordingly, most conventional justifications of violence still remain incomplete, they highlight the singularities of violence but ... ...

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... behavior against the level to which a social setting is organized against deviant behavior; this is referred to as differential social organization. Sutherland suggested that structural variables such as family status, ethnicity, age, sex and class have an effect on an individual criminal behavior, although only by influencing the likelihood of learning behavior patterns that are favorable and unfavorable to the violation ... ...

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