SOC212H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Immigration Policy, Manchester Metrolink City Zone, Lawrence Heights
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Lec 3: social organization theory, us president debate, social policy implications. Social organization theory why some of the countries have higher rates of crime? biology and economic choice can explain in some ways that why people commit crime unique population makes different rates of crime. Rapid social change leads to a breakdown in common values and regulation in certain parts of society, allowing for crime to emerge: in neighbourhoods like this in chicago, young people will be engaged in the criminals. Criminals will come into the neighbourhood, where prostitution, drugs and gambling houses. Thus, we can see lots of crimes in these kinds of neighbourhood: groups from different cultures: many immigrants who do not share same values come into this neighbourhood. Concentric zone theory: crime is linked to living conditions in. Is one of the areas which has highest rate of crime area: the city of westminster (london): parliament building, the london eye,