LAWS1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Corporate Crime, Welfare Dependency, Infant Mortality
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Chicago school of sociology - during a period of rapid change, mass migration into america, dense urbanisation occurring = crime began to be viewed as a social problem (merton). Ethnography - sociological research based on direct experience and observational study. Social ecology - study of relationships between people and their environment, often interdependence of people, groups and institutions. Shaw and mcay: longitudinal study analysing crime in terms of concentric zones on map of. Looked at how people respond to variation in threats and processes across cities. Cbd: factory zone", high property values, work, not many living. Transitional zone: rentals, poor people, inadequate housing quality, abandoned buildings. High migrant pop, welfare dependency, high adult criminality, high tb, high insanity", high infant mortality. Working class zone: single family homes, those who"d escaped from the transitional zone. Residential zone: single family homes, houses w larger yards and garages, more af uence.
