CRIM 320 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Decision-Making, Descriptive Statistics, National Crime Victimization Survey
21 Mar 2016
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Ch 1 why the criminal jusice researcher uses staisics. The nature of criminal jusice research: in the process, social scienists examine characterisics of human behaviour called variables. These hypotheses are frequently expressed in a statement of the relaionship between two or more variables: at minimum, an independent variable (or presumed cause) and a dependent variable (or presumed efect) Selecing members of the comparison group by their residenial addresses redued the socioeconomic diferences between abusers and non abusers. Other methods: content analysis is a method whereby a researcher objecively seeks to describe the content of previously produced messages. He or she may study the content of books, magazines, newspapers, ilms, and radio-braodcasts, photographs. Police agencies send informaion about homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-thet, motor vehicle thet, and arson. Informaion is compiled by fbi and used to count crime and to track trends over ime.
