SOC212H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: White-Collar Crime, Social Disorganization Theory, Infant Mortality
19 Mar 2013
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Delinquency theory started at the university of chicago. At the core are two different models: social disorganization. Looking at the lack of values within a particular culture or between a culture and the social structure. Includes shaw and mckay" (not really mentioned in text, but really important) + thrasher. Strain theory associated with merton, cloward e owin, Focused on conducts which reflected socialization to some cultural values that conflict with law. If you grow up in a culture with different values than one you"re living in. Sutherland had a pure theory of cultural deviance ( How do people learn deviance and crime. Shaw and mckay ideas influenced by what was going around them in. They were confronted with a ewildering array of different explanations for delinquency. There ere high rates of urband linquency, poverty and this led some of the rformers that the corruption of the city was the major problem in explaining crime and deviance.
