CRI205H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Data Analysis, Classical Conditioning, Age Of Enlightenment
30 Oct 2017
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Explanatory frameworks: poverty causes crime is an explanatory factor, poor people do not have basic necessities and access to resources: x causes y because, for example men commit crime more than women because of masculine socialization. Research strategies- data collection: once we have an idea or hypothesis, we must go on the field to gather evidence. Reformation of ideas: theory may become sophisticated: such as under some circumstances poverty does not cause crime. Policy implications: a theory that poverty because crime may have policy implication such as poverty reduction, for example some politicians may not want poverty to be reduced, they produce some sort of government legislations. Tension between theories that focus on structure and theories that focus on process. Conflicting assumptions about human nature (people learn to be criminals) Different conceptions of the link between society and individual behaviour. Theories must be testable : for example, we cannot test whether crime is caused by evil spirits.
