CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Urban Renewal, Concentric Zone Model, Crime Survey For England And Wales
11 Jul 2016
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Sometimes referred to as environmental criminology, or social ecology. Examines relationship between people and their environment: foundation for community structure and crime: testing social- 1 social disorganization theorists and researchers are interested in the. 1 notion that distribution of crime is not randomit is patterned. 1 social problems like unemployment, poverty and run-down housing are highly correlated with crime. Crime is not the only social problem in crime-ridden areas: usually have unemployment, mental illness, drug addiction alcoholism. Absence of social problems found in socially disorganized areas. City of chicago grew from 4,000 residents in 1833 to 2,000,000 residents in. Led to rapid social changes associated with urbanization, immigration, and industrialization. The chicago school was first sociology department in the united states (1892). Often called the ecological school, because various of its core members compared growth of chicago to the natural ecological process of competition: viewed city of chicago as a social ecology, where humans competed for scarce and desirable space.
