SOCI 388 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: General Social Survey, Thomas Robert Malthus, Adolphe Quetelet
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The two contrasting themes presented in the book. Social problems perspective: look at the social environment, discrimination, inequality, education (low), poverty, more align with a liberal political agenda . Redistribute funding and resources to people who. Social responsibility perspective need it to reduce crime: individuals vs society, you commit crime cause you decide to, rational choice made by and individual, conservative ideology. Tough on crime, increase severity of punishment and sanctions will result in the reduce of crime. Sociology is the primary perspective in which most criminological. Thomas malthus (1766-1834) demographic analysis: birth rates unsustainable-- overpopulation, advocated against any help for the poor, predictions shown to be inaccurate, paul erlic (similar perspective) Andre-michel guerry (1802-1866: collecting moral statistics, conflict in crime, formed a historical basis for the statistical school of. Adolphe quetelet (1796-1864) criminology, which attempts to find correlations between crime rates and other types of demographic data. Only crimes that reach the police are reported.
