SOC212H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cohort Study, Blackboard, Assault
19 Mar 2013
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Take major points from chapter one, but major portion from chapter 2. Wall street, got to now what that means. First hour will be lecture, second hour will be the test. Official statistics official data (crime statistics) most common and most orthodox method of indirect methods. Criminologists are increasingly using (expensive but great) longitudinal data, cohort studies: can track changes between individuals and in individuals. When you have just police data, you can"t tell if there"s an increase in crime. You don"t know if there are more new people becoming offenders, (difference between frequency and participation) so if joe is frequently committing a crime/week. Or is crime increasing because there are now 5 new kids committing crimes. Generally speaking, crime statistics collected by provincial police are just aggregate data on the number of arrests. There was a study that revealed that there is an intense pressure in lowering crime rate that officials manipulated crime statistics.
