CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Crime Survey For England And Wales, Juvenile Delinquency, Concentric Zone Model

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Chicago school was first department of sociology in america (1892) Chicago grew rapidly from small town with around 200 inhabitants to city with over three million inhabitants. Chicago grew through successive waves of migrants african americans leaving the post-civil. War south, displaced farmers and farm workers leaving the american countryside, overseas immigrants coming to american from all over europe. Park and burgess identified five concentric zones or rings that expanded outward as chicago grew-the loop, the zo(cid:374)e i(cid:374) tra(cid:374)sitio(cid:374), the (cid:449)orki(cid:374)g(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s zo(cid:374)e, the reside(cid:374)tial zo(cid:374)e, a(cid:374)d the commuter zone. Shaw and mckay employed this concentric zone model to explain why socially disorganized zone in transition experienced higher rates of delinquency than other areas of the city. Shaw and mckay described five characteristics of zone in transition that contributed to social disorganization and higher delinquency rates poverty, overcrowding, residential mobility, ethnic and cultural differences, and broken homes.

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