SOC 1500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Dream 3, Victimology, Jock Young

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Mavis Morton

Document Summary

Textbook: chapter 4 classical sociological explanations of crime page. Emile durkheim (1858-1917): origins of sociological thinking can be traced back to him, work extends beyond the study of crime, his work in suicide, the rules of sociological. The chicago school: the chicago school, also called the ecological school of criminology, the urban researchers of the 1920"s from the university of chicago discovered that crime was not randomly distributed across the population. Dream : retreatism, ritualism, rebellion, the main predictor of crime is low socio-economic status, albert cohen wrote the delinquent boys: the culture of the gang, which was the first systematical criticism of merton"s theory. Sept. 30th & october 2nd, 2014: strain theory was very influential until the 1960"s, social pressure is the key to understanding criminality. Ineffective for explaining more serious youth crime or crime that is committed by adults.