CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sampson, Structural Functionalism, Dysfunctional Family
4 Feb 2017
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Referred to as environmental criminology, ecological or social ecology. Examines relationship between people and their environment. Foundation for community structure and crime: testing social disorganization theory and economic deprivation and neighbourhood crime rates. Social disorganization theorists and researchers are interested in the spatial distribution of crime. Notion that distribution of crime is not random but patterned. Social problems like unemployment, poverty and random housing are highly correlated with crime. Crime is not only social problem in crime- ridden aresas. 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 2000000 residents in 1910 mostly through immigration. Lead to rapid social changes associated with urbanization, immigration, industrialization. The chicago school was the first sociology department in the us.
