CRCJ 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Victimless Crime, Legal Personality, Qualitative Property
25 Sep 2016
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Chapter 4 criminology understanding crime in canada. Important to know how much crime is taking place in order to study it. Media refers to quantitative crime data (generally represented in numerical form) Quantitative data = relating to the measurement of something. Qualitative data = the study of crime based on the reasons behind human behaviour and qualities of experiences, not measurements. Even if we want to count crime, it"s a challenge to know what to consider crime and how to count it. There are 4 general approaches to defining crime: structuralist perspectives: Fall within the general scope of conflict theories. Ex: marxist theory (focused on unequal distribution of capital in society ad feminist theories) Power constructs and ideological influences that play out in a variety of social context. Tend to view the criminal code as something that defines who has power, not as a neutral social consensus about what a society prohibits.
