SOC 1500 Midterm: Midterm review
2 Dec 2016
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Written 1q (5 marks) 7. 7% - week two question. Objecitivist and subjectivist approaches (consensus and conflict approaches) Strengths and weakness what they help explain. Criminal justice system 3 important components how are they structured what is the biggest areas (police) Ethical requirements and values trying to protect people from harm. Haga(cid:374)"s pyra(cid:373)id consensus and conflict crime connected to objectivist and subjectivist. Ucr know what it is problems and strengths. Done in canada statistics canada us fbi. Content analysis media manifest and latent content. Sources of crime statistics official and self report victimization. Reliable statistics homicide is more reliable so many people use it for comparison. Self report victimization surveys what info are we getting from them. Components of theory what a variable or hypothesis or concept is. Capital punishment what it is problems with that why we use it. Deterrence theory set penalty high deter us from committing crime. Biological explanations know difference of types (3 of them)
