CRIM 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Disorganization Theory, Peer Pressure

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 220
• Professor: Zachary Rowan

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Crim 220 lecture 3: structuring research projects. Identify purpose/ research question: allow for blueprint for other researchers to consistently follow/replicate your model, formulate hypotheses, gather data/ experiments, official records, survey data, etc. , analyze data, skepticism. Wallace wheel: concepts: routine activities, peer influence: exposure to delinquent friends, social disorganization, routine activities, peer influence: # of single parent homes, % married: % of time spent in the home(or working, major activity in/outside the home. # or proportion of delinquent peers: perceptions of delinquent peers, objective indicators of delinquent peers, social disorganization, % poverty, % of residential turnover, degree of ethnic heterogeneity. Know difference between concept and variable (know how to define variables) ^ may be subject to age effects aka puberty may influence data. ^ period effects: external event that affects entire population, not just sample (aka ww2: panel ex: not specifically connected/ particular group.