SOCY 275 Lecture 3: SOCY275 Week 3

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 275
• Professor: Stephen Baron

Document Summary

Ucr 2: 1988; two different recordings in our country, being used by certain percentage of department, because a part of it requires technology, gather all sorts of information, victim information, circumstance information. Crime rates: number of crimes recorded by the police in a year, divded by the estimated population for the year multiplied by 1000,000 = crime rate. Self-report: where researchers ask people how many times they did a certain thing, reliability. The chronic juvenile offender the birth cohort study and follow up the chronic offender in court: understanding chronic offenders, policy implications. Offender victim link: violent prone situations, retaliation, even though the individual is the victim, they might retaliate, deviant transactions, selling drugs, stolen property, stealing etc, also more likely to retaliate as well. Observation: watch people until you figure out what is going on, participant as observer. Informant research: gathering information with people, have to reward people. Experiments: administration of experimental manipulation, see if there are any changes.