CRM 3306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Participant Observation, Victims Family, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
25 Jan 2016
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Snowball sampling is a strategy to do this. Ethics more important/difficult: do-no-harm, justify why it will benefit the researcher. These surveys collect information of vulnerable victims and a 1-day snapshot of their lives. 2 ways to to collect data on victimization (statistics canada): Dark-figure of crime: some acts might not go reported. Helps gauge the use of victim services. Compare victims and non-victims = calculate risk. Telescoping effect: asks questions on the last 12 months. When someone wants to answer but their incident happened longer than 12 months, so if they were to answer then it could skew the data for the researcher. Better understand the nature and extent of victimization. Ucr does not collect information on race and the gss does (drawback for ucr) 15 to 24 years old are most likely to be victimized. Conclusion: always important to study the methodology of research. Victimization that was most reported in 2009 according to the gss.
