SOC205H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Disorganization Theory, Differential Association, Pressure Cooking
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Lombroso"s contributions and legacy: credited, despite having a dark history and not being scientifically valid, he simultaneously is credited away from abstract ideas to more criminological theory of crime and why people do it. The gluecks (sheldon and eleanor: it was found that most delinquents are mesomorphic. It is a form of problematic intervention which was designed to reduce criminality. The complex policy legacy of early bio/bio-social positivist. A recap of some differences between classical and early. Often about the way in which people interact with others around them. Centric zone model: basic idea that you"re not mapping the city by tourist hotspots, but instead mapping them by different zones which are distinguished with different residential and industrial buildings and forms that are within them. Burgess & park: developed concentric zone theory in 1924. Neighborhoods in chicago that have much less public transportation: in socially disorganized neighborhoods, there are criminal subcultures that develop as well as weakened social control.
