SSCI 3910U Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Variance, Unimodality, Standard Deviation
SSCI 3910U
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Chapter 1 – Criminological Theory
When did criminology begin to grow rapidly in North America? Why?
➔ ’s started to gro
➔ ’s ega to e ajor
➔ There was never a department for criminology – people took sociology
➔ Sir Leon Radzinowicz (1906- 1999) at Uni of Cambridge
➔ Nikita S. Khrushchev (1894- 1971): 1953- 64
What is the Definition of Criminology?
• Criminology is defined as an interdisciplinary scientific study of criminal
ehaior, the origis of la, ad soiety’s reatio to rie.
• What is science?
- A criminological theory is a set of explicit propositions that provide
sensible and tentative relationship between criminal behavior and one
or more well-defined conceptualizations of social phenomena, subject
to empirical verification.
Criteria for Evaluating Theory
• Logical Consistency, Scope and Parsimony
• Testability
• Empirical Validity
• Usefulness and Policy Implication
Beginning of Criminology
1. What as Bearia’s otriutio to riiology?
2. What as Bearia’s liitatio?
3. Who should be considered as the father of scientific criminology?
4. Why as Loroso’s researh iportat?
- Rehabilitation
- Changed the way we think about criminals
- Father of scientific criminology
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Chapter 2 – Doing Criminological Research
What is the current situation of criminological theories? And what is the
solution?
• Ma of the akes sese ut thee’s ot eough eidee to suppot
their claims
• Left side vs. right side
What are the advantages of scientific method?
• Objective observations
- Must review potential bias in your study
- Ex. The wording, choice of topic
• Precise measurement
- Must be specific
- Not everyone understands the same way as you because of age or
language differences
• Full disclosure of research techniques and results
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What is the Scientific Method?
• The research technique or tool used to gather data and/ or analyze data
• What is science?
- Refers to a set of agreed- upon procedures for establishing and
explaining facts o the etepise that gathes koledge aout the
old ad odeses the koledge ito testale las ad piiples
• Methodology = the logic of scientific procedure or the philosophy of the
research process
Measurement
• The process of assigning numbers to units of analysis with the condition
that these numbers obey the rule of arithmetic
• Process of making and recording observations about the characteristics of
the selected sample
• Ex. SPSS only recognizes numbers so we need to change them and assign
the numbers
- “e = M ad F opute o’t udestad
- Sex = 1 and 2 (computer will understand)
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Document Summary
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