SOCI 304 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Homicide, Criminology, Youtube

• School: Texas A&M University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 304
• Professor: Holly Foster

Document Summary

1 post-war crime trends (lafree 1999) & contemporary patterns. 3 further explanatory factors: postwar crime trends (lafree, crime boom (increase) 1961-1974, 113% increase of murder, 233% increase in robbery, crime bust (decrease) 1991-1997, crime stability (consistent) since 2000"s, ch. Broaden to opportunities: decreasing opportunities for crime: advances in technology have contributed to some drop in crimes. Triangulation: t(cid:396)ia(cid:374)gulatio(cid:374) a(cid:272)(cid:396)oss (cid:373)ethods a(cid:374)d data sou(cid:396)(cid:272)es i(cid:374)volves usi(cid:374)g: (cid:862)(cid:373)ultiple (cid:373)ethods to dupli(cid:272)ate (cid:272)lai(cid:373)s(cid:863) If same results are obtained with more than one method, it increases confidence in the study. In-depth interview: people"s e(cid:454)pe(cid:396)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)es, participant observation, a(cid:374)de(cid:396)so(cid:374)"s code of the streets, experimental, quasi-experiment: moving to opportunity study, new division in asc on experimental criminology, life history. Policy: deals with probability supported by research. African americans commit street crime and subject to victimization: homicide data: 50. 9% white offenders, 46. 9% black offenders, 45. 8% white victims, 52. 2% black victims, latinos have higher rates of serious crime and victimization that non-