CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Land Values, Psychopathology, Edwin Sutherland
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Located the source of crime within the individual: the soul the body the mind the genes. Did not really look at influence of social environment. Social context of the chicago school: cities grew at rapid rate during later half of 1800s. 1790-1890: urban population increased 139 times: chicago: 4,100 residents in 1833; one million in 1890; two million in 1910. Social context of the chicago school cont: city grew through successive waves of immigrants, also grew through displaced farm workers & blacks moving from the rural south, laborers putting in 12 hour days, 6 days a week. The progressive movement: emerged in the early 1900s, rejected social darwinism"s notion that the poor were biologically inferior, claimed that people were poor because of social environment. The progressive movement cont: criticized the human costs of unbridled economic growth, argued that the american dream did not reach the slums and the ghettos, believed that social reform was the answer.