SOC212H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Panel Data, Trait Theory, Homicide
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Crime( latent trait) versus criminal careers: age-crime relationship, gottfredson & hirschi: the general theory of crime, criminal career research (1) participation (2) frequency (3) seriousness (4) career length, trajectories of offending. Life course theory: overview, age-graded theory of crime: robert sampson & john laub, the ohio serious offender study: peggy giordano. Current concepts: latent traits, master trait that influences behaviour, put more emphasis on the influence of a single factor in explaining criminality. Al blumstein: 4 dimensions of a criminal career, 1. Participation: youre either committing a crime or youre not, 2. Frequency: of all the people participating, what do we know about how often they offend, 3. Seriousness: are offenders escalating seriousness and dropping back, 4. Trajectories of offending: terri moffitt, new zealand cohort study, followed longitudinal studying, found that there were 2 different trajectories important to understanding crime, 1. Identified 3 career paths based on content of offending: 1.
