CC100 Lecture 4: Social Structure Theory.docx
Document Summary
Social structure theories: socioeconomic structure and crime, social structure theories, social disorganization theories, strain theories, cultural deviance theories, evaluating social structure theories, social policy implications of social structure theory. Social structure theories (cont. : special features, comparative criminology: bridging the racial divide in america, criminology research: carl dawson and the mcgill school, famous canadian criminals: women who kill their children, famous canadian court case: svend robinson, crime in the news: fresh air for children, crime in the news: neglected children. Immigrants and racial and ethnic minorities are more likely to be poor: problems of housing, health care, family breakups, underemployment, despair, blocked aspirations, high levels of dropping out, teenage pregnancy, more likely to be victims of crime, suffer abuse, lower class. The culture of poverty: oscar lewis (1966, apathy, cynicism, mistrust of social institutions, cause, effect of poverty, transmitted from generation to generation, self defeating, gunnar myrdal (1970, the underclass.
