CRJ 308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Informal Social Control, Social Disorganization Theory

• School: ASU
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRJ 308
• Professor: Amanda Lindsay

Document Summary

Instead of studying individual traits, we should look at neighborhood traits. Macro- looks at influences of society on the person"s criminality. Burghes created the first theory of what would be the chicago theory of crime. Zone in transition- impoverished new to the city immigrants ended up here. Shaw & mckay- social disorganization theory: crime would be higher in areas with less organization then there would be in an area that was not disorganized. After hand-mapping delinquency, they found that the delinquency is related to that area, and not the actual individuals within that area, looking at the bigger picture. There was a shift from looking at macro to micro. Robert samson found that inner city areas had higher rates of crime and less informal social control. Created follow up study that found further evidence that low social control and crime were related, the more-weakly organized an area was the higher the crime rates would be.