PSYC 3402 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Columbine High School Massacre, Monoamine Oxidase A

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3402
• Professor: Craig Bennell

Document Summary

Disagreement on how to define crime, no absolute definition. Crime is abstract and a social construct, we as society decide whether a group of behaviours are criminal. Some crimes are not universal, some are: many crimes are not constant. Rape or violence towards a person"s spouse: we need to be careful how we operationalize crime, working with a fairly narrow definition of crime: intentional behaviour that violates the. Criminal code, does not occur accidentally or without justification. Focus on the legal definition, whether it is codified. Prevalence: number of cases or events that exists at any one point in time (raw number) To turn that into a rate we must divide the prevalence by the population of interest. Incidence: number of cases events that occur during a specific time period or interval (raw number) Again to determine a rate we divide by a denominator that represents the population. Crime rates control for population size and differences.