CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: General Social Survey, Milgram Experiment, Shoplifting
2 Jun 2013
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Crim 101 lecture 3 january 24th 2013 1. Not necessarily the most efficient manner to research crime. Criminals spend a lot of their time doing same thing as non-criminals. Criminal behavior tends to be secretive in nature. Criminals go out of their way to avoid observation or detection. If done successfully ethnographic researchers may learn in-depth information about criminal survey-cultures that are not usually amenable to investigation. Issues of informed consent (if you tell the subjects what you are going to do they might refuse or alter their behavior) If you encourage subjects to break the law, you may be breaking the law yourself. Official crime rates usually based on the uniform crime report (ucr) Criminologists also look at the general social survey (gss) Many incidents of crime go undetected, or unreported, or unreported and consequently do not make it into the ucr.
