CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Multiple Choice, Harm Reduction, John Stuart Mill
19 Jan 2018
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Midterm february 7, 2017: 65 marks, multiple choice, definition, short answer, long answer, material from lecture, textbook, and supplementary reading. What we study: causes, victims, general social impacts, what should be done about it. How is crime studied: research is produced in the following ways, qualitative, exploration in more depth, quantitative, measuring phenomenon, mixed methods. Different criminological perspectives **on midterm*: structuralist approach, falls within the general scope of conflict theory, positivist approach, falls under general scope of consensus theories, constructionist perspective, emphasize the idea that life does not come with categories and labels. Direct observation the police (cid:498)hunting(cid:499: police proactively looking for a crime, looking for a crime, crime that happens in front of them. Categorizing and processing the event: ucr, 1962, it counts crime but certain limitation, ucr2, 1980, it looks at crime on property, violence, and mixed, can look at four different offences in each situation.
