CRM 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: White Flight, Lloyd Ohlin, Edwin Sutherland
5 Apr 2013
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1950"s & 1960"s: criminology focused on a particular transgressive behaviour (delinquency, specifically gang activity) and understanding ideologies focused on context (refer to hall"s critique in chapter 5) At the same time, sociology were spurred on by this study and created a new sociological phenomenon. Combination of juvenile gangs and delinquent subcultural behaviour: introduction of previously unheralded actors in the marketplace: youth. For the first time, there was a societal consensus on youths as their own identity, with. Combined the chicago school theory with the works of edwin sutherland and mertonian concept of anomie to create a set of urban working class male delinquents. By way of sociology, history was undergoing tremendous changes (the 1950"s in america = great prosperity and the baby boom [large spike in birth rates] and in a sense, america was at its height as a world power) The landscape was a disproportionately white middle class (or aspiring to be middle class) suburbia.
