SOCY 275 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Disorganization Theory, Juvenile Delinquency, Social Control

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 275
• Professor: Stacey Alerie

Document Summary

Rapid social change causes delinquency: (process of domination) Juvenile delinquency was rooted in detachment from conventional groups: lead to engagement in crime, crime was environmental and based on relationships with people in that environment- Study the processes by which detachment occurs. Delinquents as normal, illegal activities, intertwined within the environment. Analyzed police and court records, focused on life histories. Physical status: neighborhood with most crime that were located within or close to industrial area, central business district (zone 2, rapid social change, poor housing, constant change, due to industrial invasion. Economic status: highest delinquency was lowest economic status, (welfare, the area caused crime, not the economic status, the depression, economic status associated to neighborhoods. Population composition: higher concentration of foreigners, zone 2 , delinquency stayed the same even with groups leaving and coming in, racial groups were not the cause, but the neighborhood. Delinquents were not different from people in normal society.