CRM 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Spanning Tree Protocol, Theoretical Ecology, Human Geography

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 2301
• Professor: Christine Gervais

Document Summary

= factors inside the person : social positivism. Social ecology theories: pathological conditions of communities and neighbourhood. More to the environmental context: crime = environmental issue. Environment physical (design; geographic), social and cultural context of human activity. Based on the physical aspect interrelation between organisms and their natural environment. Social / human ecology: humans and their community. Focused on a limited space and time. Crime is occurring in certain circumstances and places: criminogenic areas (inner city) There was certain areas that tended to have higher crimes and higher certain crimes urban vs. rural. Crime tends to occur more in urban areas. But does have rural bases to them spatial variation in crime rates. Crime has been more analyzed in industrialized areas. Social disorganization: 1 example of ecological theory. Generation from the 1920s the chicago school. Explanation of crime: areas where people live.