SOC 2700 Lecture Notes - Deterrence Theory, Homicide, Social Forces
5 Dec 2013
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Three types of crime explanation: external factors nature, cosmology, and demonology. Demonology = deformities (can curse someone) had eclipse of syndrome. Some internal causes also include illness and deficiency: group association is not based off of external forces or internal causes, but the actual social forces = where they grew up (social environment). It looks at the social aspects of a criminal. One of a kind natural explanations make statements about the relationships between observable phenomena. Some scientific theories make statements about the relationship between the certainty or severity of criminal punishments and the volume of criminal behaviours in society. Causation in scientific theories means 4 things: correlation, theoretical rationale, time sequence, absence of spuriousness (inaccuracy) Correlation = things tend to vary systematically in relation to each other. A negative correlation is when more of one thing tends to be associated with less of the other.
