Glossary C

Constitutional theories refer to the teories which explain criminality by reference to offenders' body types, inheritance, genetics, and/or external observable physical characteristics.

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Deutsch: Verfassungseigenschaften / Español: Rasgos Constitucionales / Português: Traços Constitucionais / Français: Traits Constitutionnels / Italiano: Caratteristiche Costituzionali /

Constitutional traits refer to source traits that depend on our physiological characteristics.

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Constitutive criminology refers to the study of the process by which human beings create an ideology of crime that sustains the notion of crime as a concrete reality.

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Constraint-based model refers to a model of sentence comprehension in which people simultaneously use all available information, semantic, syntactic, contextual, and so on, in their initial parsing of a sentence.

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Constricting actions is defined as an interaction in which one partner tries to emerge as the victor by threatening or contradicting the other.

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Construal refers to the way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social world.

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Construct is defined as an intellectual hypothesis that people devise and use to interpret or explain life events. Constructs are bipolar or dichotomous, as in tall versus short or good versus bad, or beautiful or ugly and so on.

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Construct systems is a term used by Kelly that refers to the collection of personal constructs with which people make predictions about future events.

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