SOCL 4461 : 4461 Exam 2 Notes
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Strain theory: if you don"t have , culturally valued goals, culturally acceptable means to achieve those goals, then it could lead to, strain anomie crime. The chicago school and urban ecology: the chicago school at the university of chicago first american. Zone ii: gathered stats from law enforcement and mapped data out, saw criminal activity regardless of location, saw zone 2 had the highest rates of crime, believed crime was culturally transmitted and criminal attitudes. Critique of social disorganization theory: bordered on ecological determinism, environment determines crime, make social institutions and the importance of social structure secondary, possible application to chicago only, assumes that ecological areas are stable. Stark"s deviant places theory (1980: deviant places are categorized by, 1. Density- high: an area is too highly density there"s an increased interaction b/w the most and least deviant places. Easy prey to victimized and less likely to retaliate.
