CRIM1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Track Geometry, Structural Level
CRIM1000: Integrated Theories of Crime
• What is a theory and how do we get there?
➢ THING
❖ Beginning of theory
❖ Relationship in the world
➢ HYPOTHESIS
❖ Hypothesis predicts data
❖ Data tests hypothesis
➢ THEORY
❖ Tested idea/explanation
❖ Tested that idea(s) holds
❖ Tested that hypothesis is supported or disproven
• How are theories used?
➢ Understand and explain crime and offending
➢ Contribute to how researchers:
❖ Observe
❖ Measure
❖ Develop interventions/responses
➢ Foundational (they should be) to the development of policy and practice.
• So, what is an integrated theory?
➢ Theories and their factors
➢ Combine for better explanations
➢ Different roadmap to outcome
➢ Belief that theories need not be contradictory.
• Early integrated theory (delinquency and drug use)
➢ Strain + control + social learning = delinquency/drug use
• Four ways to integrate theories:
➢ End-to-end
➢ Side-by-side
➢ Up-and-down
➢ Cross-level
• End-to-end
➢ Theory 1 —> theory 2 —> outcome
➢ Temporal order = important
• Side-by-side
➢ Category 1 parallel to category 2
➢ Pathways broken into categories
➢ Then use theories that best explain each theory
• Up-and-down
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