CRIM 2653 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Empirical Relationship, Nomothetic, Domestic Violence
16 Aug 2016
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Causality between the state of the mind of the offender to the event or behaviour. What was their state of mind before, when, and after they committed the offense? asking this question assumes that there is a special relationship between the two, irrespective of whether it is a causal relationship or a correlation. Much of the research on domestic abuse, partner violence, family violence, is both qualitative and quantitativeit is research that seeks to determine the triggers or causes of these types of violence. Idiographic: concrete, individual, uniqueexamines numerous explanations and compares or contrasts many causes. Nomothetic: abstract, general, universalfew observations to provide partial explanation, probabilities and making inferences. Causal relationships at their most basic level are about relationships between variables or the relationship between the manner in which one set of conditions or events affect another. Causal relationships are idiographicthey are in some way concrete, individual, or unique
