CC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dependent And Independent Variables, Mental Disorder, National Dairy Development Board
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Legal defences: not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder (ncrmd): previously. Not a legal defence in canada but is in the u. s. In the heat in that moment you became temporary insane, lost your ability to think and reason: (non-insane) automatism: without free will. Ex committing a crime due to having a brain tumour, related to heavy injury: entrapment: induced by law enforcement. Commit a crime that you would not do but got tricked into it which is done by police enforcement. Explaining crime (theory: theory, concepts: building blocks. They point aspects of reality and allow us to symbolize it: variables (sociology, predictor or explanatory (independent) Explains or predicts something, they predict an outcome or variable or response variable, presumed effect. Ex sex, young males are more probable to do crime than young females: response or outcome (dependent, hypothesis: how variables differ in relationship to other variables. Consensus (absolutist view) whether you are bad or good, no grey areas.
