SOC229 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Indictable Offence, Desroches Island, Armoured Fighting Vehicle

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC229
• Professor: Desroches Fred

Document Summary

Part i: problems in gaining access to penitentiary inmates, research ethics and the consent form, conducting interviews in a prison setting, sampling note pushers, bank robbery crews, and solo gunmen, problems in analyzing interview data. Part ii: type 1 and type 2 when you go into federal penitentiary, average convictions for robbery of 80 men, was 6 convictions. But in reality they have more robberies: note pusher or beggar bandit make up 95% of robbers, bank robbers keep doing them until they get caught. Part iii: people were very cooperative for the interview on robbery/theft, why did they cooperate, they had nothing to hide, and had no intention to commit further robberies at least for the time being. Interviewed holdup squad officers, they deal with robberies of all types. Indictable offence has diff categories and robberies is highest and you can: bank robbery is an awful crime to commit.