CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Crime Survey For England And Wales, Social Disorganization Theory, Informal Social Control

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 104
• Professor: Barry Cartwright Josh Murphy

Document Summary

Social disorganization theory: sometimes referred to as environmental criminology, ecological criminology, or social ecology, examines relationship between people and their environment, foundation for community structure and crime: testing social-disorganization. Theory, and economic deprivation and neighborhood crime rates. Crime is patterned: social disorganization theorists and researchers are interested in the spatial distribution of crime, notion that distribution of crime is not random it is patterned. Not randomly built, crime is patterned: social problems like unemployment, poverty and run-down housing are highly correlated with crime. Socially disorganized areas: crime is not the only social problem in crime-ridden areas, usually have unemployment, mental illness, drug addiction, alcoholism. poverty, physical or mental abuse, substance addiction. Dtes(e. g. - huge drug addiction, alcoholism not criminal but mentally ill) social issue( drugs offend drug offend) The good part of town: usually characterized by low rates of crime. Whites, mid-upper status, no minor offenses: absence of social problems found in socially disorganized areas.