SOCI 4410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Domestic Violence, Intelligence Quotient, Longitudinal Study

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 4410
• Professor: Daryl Davies

Document Summary

Any factor that increases potential or likely hood for crime = risk factors not causal --> but increases risk (correlational) Protective factors --> opposite (reduce likelihood for crime) Individuals di er in their probability of committing crime. Predicting o ending: using risk factors to predict accurately, which ones are the most important (should have policy implications surrounding them) low intelligence. Low intelligence** measured with an iq test --> indicates the relationship between a child"s developmental score and there chronological age. Important predictor of o ending (measured early in life) Perspective research study (gather info over a number of years - longitudinal study) Findings: low intelligence found at age 3 predicting o ending up to age 30. Frequent o enders (4+ o enders) had an average iq of 101 (held up even when controlling for social class) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) Low intelligence at age 4 predicted arrests up to age 27.