ATS1281 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Superorganism, Scientific Method, Ernest Burgess
8 May 2018
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UNDERSTANDING CRIME: LECTURE 4
Social Disorganisation and the Study of Crime and Space
No tutes next week
This Week
• Cotet: Chiago s-s
• The Chiago Shool, soial eolog ad the zoal hpothesis
• Sha ad MKa o soial disogaisatio
• Citiiss of soial disogaisatio
• Salagig soial disogaisatio?
• Researching crime and space at Monash
Chiago: s – s
• A modern metropolis
• Rapid industrialisation and population growth accompanied by increase in crime and
social problems
• University of Chicago as the birthplace of American sociology/criminology in 1892
• Chiago Shool ephasized appliatio of the sietifi ethod to ssteatiall
study urban life and social change
Soial Eolog
• The assumption that there is a natural order to life in a city that can be
systematically observed and recorded
• Influenced by naturalists like Charles Darwin who observed how different species co-
eisted i the sae eioet ut also Eile Dukheis ideas aout
odeizatio et eek
• Cit as a supe-ogais ostituted supopulatios uified
race/class/interests
• See Park (1936) in Further Readings
The )oal Hpothesis
• Ernest Burgess (mid-s
• Key idea: the growth of cities is patterned in ways that reflect the characteristics of
its ihaitats ad thei igatio ad settleet pattes
• Fous o zoe of tasitio III as a aea hih has a oe tasiet populatio,
oe hih is poo, liig i iadeuate ad deteioatig housig Neu 017:
204)
• Why is crime generally concentrated in relatively deprived neighbourhoods?
• Higher opportunity
• Sense of injustice
• Higher rates of poverty
• Boredom
• Lack of education
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