Kiddie ride. A kiddie ride - or kids' ride - is a coin-operated amusement ride for small children. Kiddie rides are commonly available in amusement parks, arcades, malls, hotel game rooms and outside supermarkets and discount department stores.
Adaptive strategy theory systematically deals with the observation that crime is gener- ally goal-directed and occurs across cultures (see Ellis, 1990; Rowe, 1997), whereas life history theory examines social and perceptual cues for the unconscious adoption of various strategies (Hill, Ross, & Low, 1997).
Macro theories of criminal behavior explain the âbig pictureâ of crimeâcrime. across the world or across a society. They attempt to answer why there are variations in. group rates of crime. Other authors have used the terms âepidemiologyâ or social.