CRIM 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Face Validity, General Social Survey, Impulsivity
20 Mar 2018
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Criminology 220: concepts, operations, measure - lecture 4 (jan. 29) Conceptualization: mental process of making fuzzy and imprecise notions more precise, not necessarily unidimensional, indications and dimensions are aspects or characteristics of a concept. Operationalization: process of developing working definitions that describe how measurements will be made, how will the concept be observed or measured, identify variables. Measurement: making observations and assigning values to those observations, exhaustive: every observation fits into a category, variable must consist of exhaustive tributes, mutually exclusive: each observation is in only one category. * have to conceptualize, operationalize, and measure every variable used in paper. Measuring crime: decisions based on, conceptualization, operationalization, unit of analysis, purpose of measurement, monitoring, crime rates, agency accountability, research. Dark figure of crime: crimes unknown to the police, unreported crime, only 20-30% of crime is reported to the police, some don"t trust the police and don"t want them to have this information, so they do not report.
