CRIM 2653 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Discourse Analysis, Codebook, Ibm Basic
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Refers to resreach that one takes when the subject are unware that being tested. In which little danger where active measurement be a force of change that impacts that data. Kind talked about in research are things like government records, content analysis in newspaper, studying images, dumpster diving, peoples diaries, Could be covert research but covert research id discouraged and not what we mean by unobstrusive research. Use term study text analogue: anything used in analogues way to text- e. g. audip tape, pictures, images, Not do in dangerious setting, better to look at unobstrusive methods such as documentary methods e. g. resreach prison riots. Good for study patterns fo behaviour over time e. g. longitudinal. E. g. hot spotting and crime maps which are trend studies. Read technique: interviewing potential offenders, designed by law enforcement, purpose is to get a coffesion. Nonreactive: data in which observations are made in a way they people dont know they are being observed.