CRIM 2653 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Stanford Prison Experiment, Critical Criminology, Hawthorne Effect
16 Aug 2016
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X-experimental criminology takes as its example its primary focus on scientific or true experiment. It is part of that body of criminological literature that is not focused on a lot in comparison to critical criminology. The scale is so large that researchers are contacted with hundreds of people in government agencies, universities in order to get approval and funding. This kind of research is most appropriate in explanatory or exploratory research. All forms of experimental research ask causal questions. That means that there are certain conditions in which experimental criminology is applicable and others where it is not. X cannot have a sort of trivial impact on y, we must be able to demonstrate that it has a demonstrable effect on y. Because experimental criminology is so heavily dependent on the careful construction or protocol of research design, as strang and sherman point out, one of the most important elements of experimental research design is thinking of a good question.
