SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: White-Collar Crime, Organized Crime, Human Ecology
23 Feb 2016
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Soc 1500 crime and criminal justice week 3 (sociological explanations) Chicago school environments look @ the way things grow naturally: based on human ecology model. Social disorganization shaw and mckay: most illegal conduct takes place in zone 2, because the social controls are weakened, there is also a constant influx of immigrants, as you move outwards there is less and less crime. 4. see people who do the right things get rewarded and also the latter. Innovation (flexibility and change) sometimes breaking the law can be an avenue for change. Suicide: is not an individual even, suicide differs from religions and societies, protestant, england and german have higher levels of suicide, for catholics, suicide was very controversial, not many people did it. Anomie when social norms and values are unclear and confusing, people have no sense of how they should behave, or people don"t know the norms on how they should be behaving.
