CRM 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Victim Blaming, Social Disorganization Theory, Social Capital

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 2310
• Professor: Kate Fletcher

Document Summary

Conscious, planned, concerted action alleviate, eliminate social problems. Proactive: seek to fix circumstances that might lead to eventual criminal activity. Universally relevant > everyone has a stake in it, no one wants to be a victim of crime or live near it. Causes of criminality > many, varied ways which lead to various interventions. > neighbourhoods, towns > have boundaries, share a certain set of values/ideas that bind people together within the location > issue with this ideology is that where you live does not equal what you think and how you feel. > research communities, business, academic, ethnic, not necessarily grouped together by geography but are tied together by common interest > elected community, you choose to be part of it. > sometimes we feel a sense of belonging to a group, vague, hard to define. Feel the spirit of community but its hard to define.