CRM 2303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ethnography, Rational Choice Theory, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
6 Apr 2016
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Week 3- january 27 & 29: crime research and criminological theory. Criminological theory is closely related to research in terms of the questions criminologists ask and the practical approaches and tools they use in a particular research project to answer these questions. Methods: qualitative, ethnographies, interviews with textual analysis (involves pictures, images, geography) transcribe different texts and theorizing upwards. Methods: quantitative, large detailed surveys, data analysis and cross. Realism: right and left (marxism: right: crime is based on individual decision making and personal irresponsibility. Focused on individual decision making, rational actor theory. Crime is fixed, is codified in the criminal code, society agrees to these crimes. Is a positivist notion of crime, crime is one reality: left: crime is the by-product of structural, economic exploitation. Most crime is a function of order maintenance of the ruling class. Does not take individualist approach, take systematic approach.
