CRIM 352 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Environmental Criminology, Ernest Burgess, Social Disorganization Theory

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 352
• Professor: bryan kinney

Document Summary

Chapter 1 the beginning of the geography of crime. Spatial criminology: more general version of environmental criminology. Research in the 19th century of ^ (france, england and united states: andre-michel guerry and adolphe quetelet focus on the analysis of crime in. France: john glyde main focus is england, ernest burgess (us?) Quetelet"s (cid:894)belgiu(cid:373)(cid:895) (cid:894)he (cid:449)as a(cid:272)tually first(cid:895) is (cid:272)ited (cid:373)ore tha(cid:374) guerry (cid:894)fra(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:895) (cid:894)thi(cid:374)k he was first to discover spatial criminology) Southern france has a stronger propensity toward violent crimes and northern. Corsica (island to the southeast) ranks highly in both cases. Rhone, rhine and seine (all very close to water have higher rates of violent crime) Quetelet refers to fra(cid:374)(cid:272)e"s populatio(cid:374) (cid:272)ou(cid:374)t as defe(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e. North of france has higher rates of crime. The unequal distribution of crime can occur from differing cultures of policing and administrating justice. Quetelet used statistical methods to investigate the spatial patterns of crime in. France. (first to apply this to social sciences)