CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Uniform Crime Reports, General Social Survey, Milgram Experiment
25 Sep 2018
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Direct observation in natural settings (ethnographic research) experimental observations police reports victimization surveys self report surveys. Aka ethnographic research not necessarily the most efficient manner to research crime criminal events occur with relative infrequency criminals spend a lot of their time doing same thing as non criminals. Criminal behaviour 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 sub-cultures that are not amenable to investigation. Issues of (cid:862)i(cid:374)for(cid:373)ed (cid:272)o(cid:374)se(cid:374)t(cid:863) (if you tell the su(cid:271)je(cid:272)ts (cid:449)hat you"re goi(cid:374)g to do, thay (cid:373)ay refuse or alter their behaviour). If you encourage subjects to break the law, you may be breaking the law yourself. Official crime rates are usually based on the uniform crime report (ucr) Criminologists also look at the general social survey (gss).
