CRM 1301 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Positivism, Human Rights, Torture
20 Nov 2018
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Political, economic, religious: powers that define (cid:494)crime(cid:495) and set punishments or treatments: Power to punish and prevent: nature of punishments and justifications. What were the rationales: consequences of the power to punish, consequences of the power to prevent prevention before was more negative and discriminatory. Four themes: mistrust - can"t trust all information. Sometimes inaccurate if: relativity of truth everyone has a different interpretation of truth based on his or her experiences. Statement an explanation of the relationships between variables. Theory construction: social situation/phenomenon, concepts, hypotheses, theory, solution. Who search for explanation criminology = answer. Were: personal context how and where did the theorist grow up, blinders that impact the theorist"s view are there things that theorists don"t take into consideration, assumptions about: It has an observable pattern, a particular view of the world: basic unit of consensus, fundamental image of subject matter.
