SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Deterrence Theory, Enrico Ferri, Cesare Lombroso

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Michelle Dumas

Document Summary

Theorists have come up with ways trying to explain why people commit crime. Survey research will not provide us with causation. Help point us to a particular part of our theory. Variables are those that concepts that vary. Variables can help predict a particular outcome/response. Outcome is presumed effect in the non-experimental study. Hypothesis the way we have a relationship between variables. Can be particular conditions expressed as a statement. Age and sex, young males are more likely to commit crime than anyone else. If we can identify cause we are better able to come up with a solution to stop it: caused by something specific that we can identify, crimes tend to be seen as wrong over time. Slow process where we moved from religion to science. We are trying to seek pleasure and avoid harm: 2. Free will we can choose our own behaviour: 3.