SOC 2760 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Crime In Canada, Census Geographic Units Of Canada, Social Disorganization Theory
15 Apr 2013
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Living in us you are 10x more likely to be killed. English murderers were more likely to kill themselves and admit to the murder and feel remorse. Same as anywhere else in means of drug offenders, low incomers etc English murder rate low for many centuries, even in 1400"s was still low. Homicide in canada is regionally distributed, rising from east to west. Uneven distributions of social rewards corresponds with a breakdown of social relations and increased incidence of crime. In canada crime persists in an east to west phenomenon over personal and property crime. Evidence links poverty, unemployment, social class and economic influence with violence. Absolute inequality (poverty and relative inequality social disorganization. Durkheim poorly integrated communities have higher rate of crime. Things that lead to social breakdown which increase crime rate are: unsettling effects of pop. Change, imbalance over large age cohort, tension with divorced families and/or conflict between ethnic groups regional and temporal variations in homicide.
