SOC 4610 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: National Institute Of Justice, Public Health, Intersectionality
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Types of research in family violence: sociological. Investigate through large data banks of crime statistics: psychological and psychiatric. Investigate through small clinical samples and some large surveys: public health and medical. Investigate through epidemiological studies and prevalence and incidence statistics: neuroscience and genetics. Investigate through reviews of family violence laws and academic literature to determine what legal changes are needed. Interdisciplinary science: greater collaboration between researchers/practitioners, agencies/practitioners, and researchers from different disciplines, federal government. Investigation of family violence through surveillance systems (monitoring/tracking) and data collection from large population samples. Increased funding of research projects and expanded collaboration. Theoretical explanations of family violence: theory - an integrated set of ideas that explain a set of observations, 2 approaches, macro-theory: identify the brad factors that make families prone to violence. "eye for an eye: micro-theory explanations, micro-theories, learning theories, doing gender theory, systems theory and interactional theories - never one person, correlates and single factor variable.
