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Studying Deviance
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Studying Deviance
Official Statistics
- Strengths
- Fast: Pre-Collected
- Cheap
- Longitudinal: over History
- Breadth: No Sampling
- Three Sociological Categories of Crime
- Property Crimes
- Burglary
- Vandalism
- Arson
- larceny/theft
- Crimes Against the Person
- Robbery
- Rape
- Murder
- Assault
- Victimless Crimes
- Drugs
- sex
- Gambeling
- Property Crimes
- Weaknesses
- Validity
- Change / Absent Categories
- Data Gathering
- Self Interpretation
- Strengths
Career of Crime
- Unrecognized
- Unreported
- Unrecorde
Survey and Field Research Methods
- Survey Research
- Four Steps
- Questionnaire
- Sampling
- Probability
- Convenience
- Snowball
- Mode of Administration
- Coding and Analysis
- Four Steps
- Participant /Observation
- Field Methods
- Four Steps
- Choose a Topic/ Personal Biography
- Gaining Entree
- Forging Trust and Relationships
- Developing Analysis
- Four Steps
- Field Methods
- Survey Research
Survey Research 4 Steps
- Questionaire
- Sampling
- Mode of Adminstration
- Coding of Analysis
Child Abuse Reporting
- Reporting Laws
- Unreported Cases
- Unsubstantiated Reports
Survey of Sexual Behavior of Americans
- Skepticism About A National Survey of Sex Behavor
- National Health and Social Life Survey (NHSLS): Sample Design
- Gaining Cooperation: The Response Rate
- Mode of Administration
- Face-To-Face
- Most Costly
- NHSLS
- Phone Interviews
- Ruled out
- Cheaper
- 90 Minutes to Complete
- Self administered
- Main Method
- ruled out
- Questions must be simpler
- Face-To-Face
- The Questionnaire
- Privacy, Confidentiality, Security
Researching Dealers And Smugglers
- Fieldwork Study
- Two Methods
- Indirect
- Direct
- Moving from Covert to Overt Research Roles and Challenges