CJUS-P 200 Lecture Notes - Fall 2018 Lecture 1 - Nonprobability sampling, Copernican heliocentrism, Participant observation

• School: IU
• Department: Criminal Justice-Coas
• Course: CJUS-P 200
• Professor: Jonathan Brauer

Document Summary

What is (cid:862)(cid:272)ri(cid:373)e(cid:863), legalistic- approach to defining crime. Crime & deviance: any culpable action or inaction prohibited by law and punishable by the state as a misdemeanor or felony. In the light crimes: crimes reported (interpersonal, eg: robbery -people want their things back. In experimental methods: often manipulate independent variables, then observe changes in dependent variables. In observational methods: usually observe correlations between independent and dependent variables, correlates are variables that are related in a statistical sense, e. g. , age is a correlate of crime. In official stats and victimization data: for more serious street crimes, black/white crime gaps, no differences, or even a reversed relationship when , analyzing self-report data, examining minor offenses or white-collar crimes. General theory of crime: an adequate general theory of crime should include the following components, motivation for crime (internal & external, constraint (internal & external, opportunity, contingencies.