SOCI 4410- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 27 pages long!)
5 Oct 2017
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Some treatments work better for some offenders than others (no cookie cutter approach to reducing crime) Longitudinal research plays a key role in understanding what risk factors are reliable as indicators of crime in society what impact does a specific program have on reducing crime (d. a. r. e / scared straight. Health care field: primary prevention: is when health care system targets whole population (vaccines target all children, secondary prevention: those who are at most risk (young and old, tertiary prevention: targets people who have contracted the disease. Criminology field: primary prevention: communicate broad messages to the public (media, tv/movies/news etc, secondary prevention: target those at most risk, tertiary prevention: once you"re out of prison that"s it (poor at re-establishing former criminal) Ferrington and tonrey : cambridge study in delinquent development. Persistence of crime (how long is a persons crime career) Longitudinal studies are the only way to really empirically study this are the results replicable.
