CRIM 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4-5: Victimless Crime, Qualitative Property, Conflict Theories
29 Nov 2016
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Measuring crime and victims of crime- chapter 4. Quantitative data- relation to the measurement of something- its quantity- rather than its qualities. Qualitative data- study of phenomena based not on measurement but on exploration of the reasons for human behaviour and the qualities of subjective experience. Qualitative data shows overall patterns and their consistent structure allows for comparisons to be made between groups, times, and places. Qualitative observations serve to strengthen statistical results and help to put them into context; when we understand the meaning that people attach to different phenomena; it helps us understand why the aggregate results are the way they are. Act that can be defined as criminal . See criminal code as a battleground influenced by differential access to power. Pay particular attention to power structures and ideological influences that play out in a wide array of social contexts.
