CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Crime Survey For England And Wales, Informal Social Control, Socioeconomic Status
21 Jul 2016
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Thomas and florian znaniecki and also by robert parak. Social disorganization theorists and researchers are interested in the spatial distribution of crime. Absence of social problems such as homelessness and panhandling. Usually has unemployment, mental illness, drug addiction, alcoholism. Crime is a result of overcrowding, poverty, transience, all contribute to breakdown of informal social controls (family, school, religion) Residents unable to solve their own problems/achieve community goals. Retest of shaw and mckay"s original social disorganization theory. Argued that the original research only tested on 1 community, might not be applicable in others. Many early study of social disorganization theory rely on crime rates. Concerned about the extent to which official delinquency rates reflect ecological biases in official reaction to delinquent behavior. Police may just be patrolling more in lower class areas therefore higher crime rate. Got around the crime rate bias by using british crime survey from. The survey is collected from micro-community level rather than macro level.
