SOC 2700 Study Guide - Final Guide: Informal Social Control, Social Disorganization Theory, Labeling Theory
18 Sep 2012
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Social ecology theories-assumes people are inherently good but are vulnerable to their environment which is the cause crime and where people live as well as the physical environment makes crime normal. Crime is an outcome of poverty stricken areas. High crime neighbourhoods are overpopulated, rundown buildings, homelessness, renting homes, distinction between rich and poor, low level of education, transitional neighbourhood, however, low crime areas are the opposite. Crime flourishes here: working class zone if filled with single family tenants, residential zone is single family homes with yards and garages, commuter zone is the suburbs where people eventually move to. Delinquency areas by shawn and mckay-56000 juvenile court record and how they are distributed across the zones. Look longitudinally at the change in crime rates from 1900-1933 which were years of high migration and immigration. They hand plotted each crime on a map. Remarkable stability in high delinquency areas over time despite population changes.
