[CRM2301] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (57 pages long!)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 2301
• Professor: Vajmeh Tabibi

Document Summary

A system of interconnected abstractions or ideas that condenses and organizes knowledge about a phenomenon. Can be abstract or concrete phenomena: concrete ones you can physically see (grey clouds its going to rain, abstract is more like racism, you can not touch or see racism. Unit theories: emphasize a particular problem, are testable, about an event, can be structural, individual or broader. Metatheories: are theories about theories, rarely testable. Many different forms of knowledge guide our theories: example: empirical evidence (experience), intuition, common sense, expert opinion, etc. Level of abstraction: scope covered by theory: macro-theories. Example: focus on rate of crime (epidemiology) such as anomie and conflict theories: micro-theories. Range from purely social to psychological or biological. Examples: social learning theories: bridging theories. Focus on social structure and how people become criminal. Other classification schemes are often based on dichotomies: classical vs.