CHYS 3P40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Signify, Cesare Lombroso, General Strain Theory
7 Nov 2017
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Offence" impacted by various factors, including legal, social, political economic factors. Offence" when official response: 2 separate but related concepts, socially constructed; changes over time and place, crime not all detected; official statistics; self-report; victimization data, crime vs. deviance related but overlapping, under ycja young person . 3 ways to measure youth crime: official statistics uniform crime reporting (ucr) survey, crime severity index, judicial (court), and correctional sources, victimization surveys, self-report surveys, 1. Strengths and limitations to each data source: 2. difficulty complete picture: dark figure of crime , 3. Classical vs. positivist: classical - crime as a result of rational thinking, weighing costs and benefits, crimes and punishments; proportionality; deterrence, positivism causes of crime. Fix or respond to problems; rehabilitation; programs to address home, school, community, economy: consensus vs. conflict, consensus vs. conflict theories. *less important to categorize them this way for our purposes.
