Glossary C

Glossary C

Contagious behavior refers to a more-or-less instinctive or reflexive Behavior triggered by the occurrence of the same Behavior in another individual.

Contagious magic refers to a type of sympathetic magic. Contagious magic involves the belief that what one person does to something that a person once owned or that was close to a pe

Containment refers to the aspects of the Social bond which act to prevent individuals from committing crimes and keep them from engaging in deviance.

Containment theory refers to a form of control theory which suggests that a series of both internal and external factors contribute to law-abiding behavior.

Contaminated is defined as the state of being contaminated; spolied;

Contamination is when something becomes impure or unclean; the condition in which a criterion score is affected by things other than those under the control of the employee.

Contemplation refers to a stage in the Transtheoretical Model where people recognize they may be doing something unhealthy and then intend to change within the next month

Contemporaneous bisexuality is defined as having sexual partners of both sexes during the same time period.