CRJ 404 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Statistical Literacy, Juvenile Delinquency, National Crime Victimization Survey

• School: ASU
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRJ 404
• Professor: Brooks Robbin

Document Summary

Chapter 3 understanding delinquency: data, correlates, and trends. Tyranny of small numbers means that when we are dealing with small numbers. Increase or decrease in the smaller group is going to cause a greater change than an increase or decrease in the larger group. Data in quantitative research are in the form of numbers. Data in qualitative research are represented through words, pictures, objects, songs and films. Quantitative research gives general or broad picture of some social phenomenon or correlations between two social facts. Two of the most often used forms of qualitative data collection are probably unstructured and semi-structured interviews and ethnographic work that utilizes participant observation. The interview is a very popular technique. Ucr: uniform crime report most widely cited source of data for crime and delinquency trends. Since 1930, fbi collects data from local law enforcement and compiles a national database. The ucr is compiled from statistics of more than 17,000 police departments.