CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Urban Renewal, Structural Functionalism, System On A Chip
20 Jun 2016
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Sometimes referred to as environmental criminology, ecological criminology, or social ecology. Examines the relationship between people and their environment. Foundation for community structure and crime: testing social-disorganization theory and economic deprivation and neighborhood crime rates . Social disorganization theorists and researchers are interested in the spatial distribution of crime. Notion that distribution of crime is not random: it is patterned. Social problems like unemployment, poverty and run-down housing are highly correlated with crime. Crime is not the only social problem in crime-ridden areas. Usually have unemployment, mental illness, drug addiction, alcoholism. Usually characterized by low rates of crime. Absence of social problems found in socially disorganized areas. City of chicago grew from 4000 residents in 1833 to 2,000,000 residents in 1910, principally through immigration. Let to rapid social changes associated with urbanization, immigration, and industrialization. The chicago school was first sociology department in the us (1892)
