Sociology 2266A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Campus Police, Jaywalking, General Social Survey
25 Apr 2018
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Participation in and observation of the community or social group. Advantages: direct access to information about events, validity: how accurate is your data. Disadvantages: efficiency; secretive behaviour; ethical issues; limited scope for questions, snowballing. Conditions necessary for observation are created rather than natural. Advantages: efficiency; control, setting up an experiment in the natural world, so you create the conditions instead of waiting for the conditions to happen, you can manipulate some variables. Police reports: crimes known and officially recorded by police: #1 way to collect data, since 1962, police have had to report crime through the ucr. Identify consequences of victimization: disadvantages, under-represent certain crimes, ex. Domestic violence: accuracy of information due to memory or truthfulness of respondents, telescoping: when traumatic events happen, it feels like they happened more recently than they actually did. Offender reports: data gathered from a sample of known offenders such as prison inmates: surveys, interviews.
