CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Merriam-Webster, General Social Survey, Conflict Theories

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 101
• Professor: Barry Cartwright

Document Summary

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and stats. benjamin disreaeli (1804-1881) Especially for the purpose of inferring proportions in a whole from those in a representative sample . Structuralist (conflict theories): focus on the inequities in the distribution of capital. Positivist (consensus theories): focus on the idea that what constitutes crime is. Constructionist: focus on interpreting crime as both a technical and theoretical crime stats since 1700s. Goal: correlations between rates of various crimes and other demographic and. Integrationist: focus on all three offering a complete explanation of crime (palys & morden, 2014) Stats collected since biblical times informative data about phenomena such as economic conditions, age, sex, population density, ethnicity, etc. Mala in se and mala prohibita - as defined by society based in law, moral values, social convention, behavioural consequences, and others. in society agreed to by the majority problem. Revised ucr incident-based collected increased information regarding crime.