scholarly journals Social Research about Online Crime: Global Range of Topics and a Systematic Analysis of Research in Lithuania

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 8-46
Author(s):  
Maryja Šupa
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The Social ◽  
Disciplinary Field ◽  
Crime Types ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Topic Map

 Social research about online crime is a multi-disciplinary field addressing a wide array of topics since its inception in the 1980s. Based on a broad review of state-of-the-art literature and gaps identified in review publications (Holt, Bossler 2014; Stratton, Powell, Cameron 2017; Maimon, Louderback 2019, and others), in this paper I outline 41 key topic in social research about online crime, classified into four broad categories: 1) research focusing on specific types of online crime, 2) research about perpetrators, victims, and law enforcement, 3) research about online crime discourses and public perceptions, 4) research putting the local and global specifics of online crime into perspective. Based on the topic map, I undertook a systematic review of literature on research about online crime published in Lithuania from the empirical social scientific perspective. The results show that very few such studies are carried out in Lithuania. From 2004 to 2020, 26 publications have been found in total. 10 of them were theoretical briefs, while 16 were based on empirical data. Out of the 41 key topic, 14 were covered in the publications, while 29 or roughly two thirds remained unaddressed. The dominant contributors were legal scholars writing about the social aspects of online crime across a variety of topics, and mostly focusing on specific crime types. The most developed topic was cyberbullying, with contributions by scholars mostly from the fields of psychology and education. To fill in these glaring gaps, it is vital to develop this field of research with an emphasis on both wider and deeper research agendas, complex, valid and reliable research data and critical theoretical approaches, inviting systematic contributions from criminology, sociology, communication and media studies, and political science.

School Notes: Committee on Historical Studies

1987 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-236
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Processes Of Change ◽  
Graduate Faculty ◽  
New School ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Historical Moment

The Committee on Historical Studies was established in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in 1984. The Graduate Faculty has long emphasized the contribution of history to the social sciences. Committee on Historical Studies (CHS) courses offer students the opportunity to utilize social scientific concepts and theories in the study of the past. The program is based on the conviction that the world changes constantly but changes systematically, with each historical moment setting the opportunities and limiting the potentialities of the next. Systematic historical analysis, however, is not merely a diverting luxury. Nor is it simply a means of assembling cases for present-oriented models of human behavior. It is a prerequisite to any sound understanding of processes of change and of structures large or small.

scholarly journals Decision Making in the Process against Children Diversion Dealing with the Law Has not Aged 12 Years

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (07) ◽  
Author(s):  
I Pande Ketut Arya Yarsita ◽  
Rodliyah ◽  
RR. Cahyowati
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
District Court ◽  
Research Report ◽  
The Social ◽  
Law Enforcement Officials ◽  
The Law

This study aims to examine and analyze the concept of decision making in the diversion process for children facing the law who are not yet 12 years old; and law enforcement decision making in the diversion process for children who are faced with a law that is not yet 12 years old (Study of the Chairperson of the Mataram District Court Number: 22/Pen.Div/2017/PN Mtr). The concept of decision making in the diversion process for children facing the law that is not yet 12 years old is the judge in imposing sanctions for children considering recommendations in the social research report made by community counselors to express and find data and information objectively about the development and background of life children from various sociological, psychological and other aspects while still paying attention to the best interests of the child. Law enforcement of decision making in the diversion process against children who are faced with a law that is not yet 12 years old emphasizes restorative justice which is the goal in the implementation of the diversion of cases of children facing the law. Law enforcement officials both Investigators, Community Guidance and Professional Social Workers conduct deliberations to reach a decision based on restorative justice that prioritizes the best interests of children.

Social research and state planning

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Murray ◽  
Maria Feeney
Keyword(s):  
Social Research ◽  
Social Spending ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
State Planning ◽  
Scientific Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Crisis Conditions ◽  
The 1960S

Chapter 6 examines the relationship between the programming state and social research. Initial crisis conditions had enabled increased social spending to be left off the government programmers’ agenda. The changed politics of increasing prosperity, as well as their own expanding ambitions, meant that this could no longer be sustained during the 1960s. Ireland’s social security provision became an object of both political debate and social scientific analysis in this period. The official response to this ferment was a Social Development Programme to which the ESRI was initially seen as a vital provider of inputs. During the 1960s a Save the West movement challenged both programmers and governing politicians. The official response to this challenge involved new structures for rural development with which the social sciences interacted as well as expanded social welfare provision to a class of smallholders whose resilience would later become an object of significant sociological study. As the 1960s proceeded, however, Irish state plans and programmes had to contend with an increasingly difficult external environment with which they ultimately failed to cope.

From Community to Communicative Policing: ‘Signal Crimes’ and the Problem of Public Reassurance

2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Innes ◽  
Nigel Fielding
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Police Practice ◽  
Disorderly Conduct ◽  
The Social ◽  
Crime Types ◽  
Social Scientific

In this paper the concept of ‘signal crimes’ is proposed to capture the social semiotic processes by which particular types of criminal and disorderly conduct have a disproportionate impact upon fear of crime. Drawing upon the wider social scientific literature on risk perception, a sense of how and why different crime types might be possessed of different signal values is provided and some of the implications for current police practice outlined.

The Interplay of Social Status and Trust: A Critical Review of Concepts, Operationalizations, and Findings

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-220
Author(s):  
Carolina Dahlhaus ◽  
Thomas Schlösser
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Negative Correlation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The Social ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
The Relationship

This review examines the relationship between a person’s social status and trust. Previous research has yielded differing results. On one hand, studies have repeatedly found positive correlations of different strengths between social status and trust; that is, persons with higher social status trust more than persons with lower social status. On the other hand, empirical evidence has also suggested a negative correlation between social status and trust; that is, persons with lower social status trust more than persons with higher social status. In addition to a systematic analysis of the various theoretical approaches and the respective study results, possible causes for these diverging empirical findings are discussed. With regard to the relationship between socioeconomic status and generalized trust, all studies reviewed show a positive correlation. Contradictory results can be found only in studies that investigated socioeconomic status and trust, measured as behavior. In addition to the different operationalizations of social status and trust, one potential cause for different results may be found in the fact that in experimental settings, the social status of the interaction partner is often known.

scholarly journals Digital Social Futures Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-48
Author(s):  
Sarah Pink
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Strong Base ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Digital Material ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Interdisciplinary Interventions

Social research is almost inevitably digital: in its subject matter because the digital, social and material dimensions of our worlds and lives are now inseparably entangled; and in its methods as our research techniques and encounters are, even if indirectly, implicated with digital technologies, platforms and practices. Social scientific renderings of digital technologies and media and everyday life propose a range of discipline-specific ways of understanding this relationship between the online/offline and digital/material, and a large and growing literature about digital methods and practice for research and its dissemination. The new challenge is to advance from this strong base of critical research and scholarship within the social sciences and humanities, in two ways. First towards interdisciplinary interventions that will bring theory, methods and concepts into dialogue with technology and design disciplines, and policy and industry agendas; and second to engage with emerging digital technologies and communication, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, and Automated Decision Making (ADM), and the new socialities, everyday life practices and business models associated with these technological possibilities.

Continuity through change: State social research and sociology in Portugal

2020 ◽  
pp. 095269512092209
Author(s):  
Frederico Ágoas
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Historical Sociology ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Industrial Workers ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The Social ◽  
Change State ◽  
The One

This article examines the development of empirical social research in Portugal over about a century and its relation to the early institutionalization of sociology at the tail end of that period. Relying on new empirical data, coupled with a critical reading of the main sources on the topic, it brings to light some epistemic invariants in a disparate body of research, acknowledging the initial persistence of Le Play-inspired as well as properly Le Playsian research methods. Furthermore, it identifies the general continuation of a substantial concern with the (physical and then moral) condition of rural and industrial workers, leading to a disclosure of the political-economic and governmental roots of the social research in question. From a historical sociology perspective, the article explores the relation between state governmentalization and authoritarian rule, on the one hand, and the development of the social sciences, on the other. From a history of science perspective, it acknowledges the continuous use of the same research methods to carry out seemingly incommensurable social research programmes and the later pursuit of a properly sociological research programme that fell back on conflicting methodological and theoretical approaches. In broader terms, the article aims to put forward a historical sociology of theoretical approaches, research methods, and scientific concepts that will hopefully contribute to a clearer understanding of their respective fields of application.

scholarly journals Thick Concepts in Social Research: What, Why, and How?

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 160940692110661
Author(s):  
Simon van der Weele
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Qualitative Social Research ◽  
Thick Concepts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Epistemological Challenge ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Practical Recommendations ◽  
Methodological Difficulties

Thick concepts are concepts that describe and evaluate at once. Academic discussion on thick concepts originated in meta-ethics, but thick concepts increasingly draw attention from qualitative researchers working in the social sciences, too. However, these scholars work in relative isolation from each other, and an overview of their ideas is missing. This article has two aims. The first is to provide such an overview, by bringing together these disparate voices on why thick concepts matter for the social sciences and how to work with them in qualitative social research. The second aim is to reflect on the methodological difficulties of working with thick concepts, by thinking through the example of my research on a specific thick concept—the concept of dependency. The article argues that thick concepts are invoked by social researchers for either epistemological or methodological purposes. It then goes on to claim that if we want to take thick concepts as our sensitizing concepts or as our objects of research, these two purposes really ought to be considered in unison: any methodological approach involving thick concepts must factor in the epistemological challenge thick concepts pose to social-scientific research. To show why—and to consider what this requires from qualitative researchers—I draw on insights acquired during my study on dependency. I end with practical recommendations for working with thick concepts in social research.

Social theories of suicide

2021 ◽  
pp. 137-146
Author(s):  
Ilkka Henrik Mäkinen ◽  
Yerko Rojas
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Relative Number ◽  
Emile Durkheim ◽  
Scientific Theories ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Theories ◽  
Collective Phenomenon ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Social Components

In this chapter, some social theories in relation to suicide are presented together with examples from actual research. Although an individual act, suicide can be studied as a collective phenomenon, for example, as the relative number of cases that occur in different groups. Most social-scientific theories of suicide consider these not only as accumulations of individual observations, but also as results of social-level properties, events, and processes. The social environment in its different forms is thought to be connected with suicidal behaviour in multiple ways—the reasons for, the performance of, and the communication about the act all have strong social components. The currents in social research into suicide coincide largely with those in the social sciences more generally, with a preponderance, however, of structuralist studies following in the footsteps of Emile Durkheim.

Social Networks and Communities

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Odella
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Rural Villages ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Exchanges ◽  
Network Studies ◽  
Relational Contexts ◽  
Detection Strategies

The concept of community has been used in social sciences to describe several types of relatively stable relations among individuals, in a variety of contexts, from small rural villages to metropolitan and multicultural cities and for different forms of interaction from economic exchanges to leisure and political expression. Emerging outcomes of communitarian relations such as cohesion and cooperation, exchange of resources and communication efficiency have fostered and stimulated theory advancements and investigation of these relational contexts. The following chapter focuses on the concept of community in social network studies and describes the main theoretical approaches and research strategies adopted by network analysts to study social groupings. The review surveys classical network studies and the theoretical debate that involved the concept of community during the last century, exploring the perspective of contemporary research on communities. The theoretical implications of the study of communitarian relations and social participation will be addressed describing main community detection strategies and the debate on social capital. The third section of the chapter depicts network studies that deal with the social impact of new forms of societal communication and special types of communities in the virtual world. In the conclusions, the text outlines the challenges that social research on virtual and natural communities is expected to face in the next decade. The complete list of references is provided at the end of the chapter.

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