CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Crime Survey For England And Wales, Social Disorganization Theory, Dysfunctional Family
19 Mar 2016
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Overcrowding, poverty, transience, all contribute to breakdown of informal social controls (family, school, religion) Ineffective socialization and supervision of children(due to dysfunctional families, no neighborhood stability) Residents unable to solve their own problems/achieve community goals. Chicago school tradition of studying relationship between crime and ecology re-emerged in the 1980"s. Crime in cities: the effects of formal and. Environmental design, crime and prevention. in communities and crime. Community structure and crime: testignsocial disorganization theory. american journal of sociology. Title of 1989 work by sampson & groves. Previous macro-level research in crime and delinquency has relied primarily on census data that rarely provide measures for the variables hypothesized to mediate the relationship between community structure and crime . Ethnographic research limited in scope and applicability because it focuses on a single community or only a few neighborhoods (limited variability) Many previous studies beset with problem of relying on official crime rates e. g. , shaw and mckay.
