SOCI 388 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: General Idea, Participant Observation, Group Conflict
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Crime that violates anything established by the state; codified by the law. Processes in which people involve in deviant activities: political, sociological, psychological. What should be criminal: the consensus perspective, unique subgroup. Majority can be 50+1 --> not a vast majority. What about people who don"t get caught: the pluralistic perspective, the conflict perspective. Will try to explain all types of crime with a single cause. Integration of elements from different theories to explain various types of. Other relevant terms: social policy, criminality, criminogenic, criminal behaviour. Data-collection techniques: collecting your own data, surveys, case studies, participant observation, self-reporting, secondary analysis, any of the above but collected by someone other than the person conducting the analysis, ex. Statistics canada: vast majority of quantitative research. Two contrasting themes presented in the book: social problems, look at social environment, social factors are what produce criminals, left identifies more with this argument, social responsibility.
