SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Personality Disorder, Dna Profiling, Murder
6 Feb 2016
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Theory: a way of understanding and explaining phenomenon. Concepts: theoretical concepts are the building blocks of theory. Variables: concepts that vary; can be counted, measured or observed; tend to be independent or dependent. Dependent: tends to be the outcome; what we are trying to. Age is a determinant of crime young people are more likely to independent: cause, something that helps something happen/association explain commit crime than older people. Individual: can look at individual attributes why people commit crimes; inherent in the individual- where they grew up, their genetics; human behaviour is classified in either good or bad. Consensus: the majority agrees what is right or wrong. Causation: answering the why what is the cause of a person committing a crime caused by something and determine what that thing is - can find a solution by finding out the cause: subjectivist. ? subjectivist would ask individualistic theories of criminal behaviour: non-scientific.
