CRIM 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Nomothetic, Deductive Reasoning
1 Sep 2016
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Chapter 2 fou(cid:374)datio(cid:374)s of cri(cid:373)i(cid:374)al justice research. What is and why, not what should be (not value or worth) Observation (e. g. , teens commit more crimes than middle aged people) Understanding our work must make sense and must agree with what we observe. Attributes: characteristics or qualities that describe some object or person (e. g. , married, intoxicated) Variables: logical groupings of attributes (e. g. , gender composed of attribute male and female) Causation person"s attributes on one variable are expected to cause a particular attribute on another. Social regularities represent probabilistic patterns (e. g. , blue eyed person mating with brown eyed) Aggregates: combined actions and situations of many individuals. Explain why aggregate patterns of behavior are so regular even when individuals who perform them. Bigoted identify actual individuals with some set of similar individuals. Understand what makes a bigoted candidate think the way he does and people like him theory > constructs > hypothesis > variables > attributes.
