THE LOGIC OF DEFINITION IN CRIMINOLOGY: PURPOSES AND METHODS FOR DEFINING “GANGS”

Criminology - Tập 33 Số 2 - Trang 225-245 - 1995
Richard A. Ball1, G. David Curry2
1WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY
2University of Missouri–St. Louis#TAB#

Tóm tắt

This article is aimed at clarifying some of the problems in gang definition by examination of the logic of definition. Definitions are considered in terms of various purposes as well as lexical and stipulative definitional types. Methods of stipulative definition that have been tangled together in gang research and theory are identified as analytic definition and synthetic definition, with the latter including correlational, causal, and definition by description. The article examines how various researchers and theorists have fallen into various errors of logic in use of these methods and how gang research and theory might make more consistent progress through clarification of the definitional issues.

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