SOC 1500 Lecture : SOC*1500
1 Feb 2012
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Participant observation (i. e. research on gangs, squeegee kids, prostitutes, police etc. ) Researcher interacting with a group while observing their behaviour. Validity - observing rst hand events in natural setting. Hard to make inferences/generalizations in a larger population. During 1990 s crime rates steadily declined in canada stabilizing in early 2000 s. The crime rate dropped in 2010, down 5%. The overall crime rate was 17% lower than a decade ago. The police-reported crime rate, which measures the overall volume of crime, continued its long-term downward trend in 2010, declining 5% form 2009. Crime severity index, which measures the severity of crime, fell 6% Guelph is the safest city in canada on the crime severity index. A new look at the gender gap in offending . The most important variable for understanding crime is gender. Youth in general are given a bad rap particularly in violent crime and that is true for young women too.
