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Mind Map by emoghtader, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by emoghtader
over 8 years ago
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Studying Deviance
- Official Statistics
- Numerical
tabulations comiled
by gov & social
service agencies
- Data sources: arrest,
census, victim, medical,
public health, court
- Valitidy problems: unrecognized crimes,
outdated categories & reporting
- Child Abuse Reporting
- Opposing Problems: unreported
vs unsubstantiated cases
- 60-65% unsubstantiated reports nationally
- 56% unreported cases to authorities
- 60-65% unsubstantiated reports nationally
- 3 factors on child abuse statistical increases
- Social definition of abuse
- Media campaigns
- Mandatory reporting laws due to expansion of
prevention/treatment programs, education programs,
and public awareness campaigns
- Social definition of abuse
- Opposing Problems: unreported
vs unsubstantiated cases
- Numerical
tabulations comiled
by gov & social
service agencies
- Field Research
- Live w/members of deviant groups
- Compiles richly descriptive and analytical
information, generally longitudinal
- Expensive, time consuming, lacks
generalizability and objectivity
- Researching Dealers & Smugglers subculture over 4 yr span
- Issues: effect of drugs on the data-gathering process, assuming risks while
doing research, cultural clash between us and subjects, & ethical problems
(initimacies/confidences,guilty feelings)
- Researcher became friends w/drug smuggler
neighbor; was granted "membership" into
group of smugglers after 1 yr
- Conclusion: Researchers had to become trusted, then reveal true self for
real data, & use a combo of overt/covert roles. Study criminals in natural
habitat showed complexity of their subculture; their dimensions of
lifestyle, social stratification, social organization, and motivation.
- Issues: effect of drugs on the data-gathering process, assuming risks while
doing research, cultural clash between us and subjects, & ethical problems
(initimacies/confidences,guilty feelings)
- Live w/members of deviant groups
- Survey Research
- 3 major surveys: National Youth Survey,
Monitoring the Future, & Kinsey surveys
- Used to compile information about
behavior that isn't routinely collected
by the gov/official agencies
- Validity problems: inaccurate deviant sample
group, deviants define questions different than
author, & correlations considered casual.
- Survey of Sexual Behavior of Americans
- Nation Health & Social Survey sample design
- Probablity sampling method of 20,000 people; 80% completion rate
- Face-to-face, telephone and self-administered
- Issues: where to draw boundaries in defining
sex, appropriate language when asking about
sex, slang deteriorating meaning.
- Nation Health & Social Survey sample design
- 3 major surveys: National Youth Survey,
Monitoring the Future, & Kinsey surveys
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