CRM 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Control Theory, Metatheory, Anomie

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 2301
• Professor: Christine Gervais

Document Summary

Theory is the opportunity to analyze and criique the way others have looked at crime through history. Most theories use a system of three basic types of theories; biological, psychological and social. Quanitaive (validaion: approach that focuses on measuring and tesing. Qualitaive (validaion: approach that focuses on the substance of the theory, helps resolve the problem of ime-speciic and measurement-speciic evidence, include factors of. The ability to make sense out of several conlicing posiions. Evidence seems to indicate that there are two or more opposing facts, a good theory can reconcile those facts. May sensiize people to things they otherwise would not see. Focusing people"s atenion on a new, or even forgoten, direcion of inquiry, or suggesing a diferent way of looking at and interpreing a fact they already know. Measuring capabiliies and techniques may change, therefore theories need to be reexamined with ime.