CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Relative Deprivation, Social Disorganization Theory, Anomie
25 Sep 2018
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Nature of the workplace has changed significantly over the last few decades. Better paying, full-time manufacturing jobs have been disappearing. Replaced by lower paying (often part-time) service jobs. Women at work, technology are also factors that affect the changing workplace. More females (including married women) are now working, and in some cases moving into occupational positions traditionally held almost exclusively by males. Technological changes (eg. computers, cell phones, and email have also dramatic effect on how workplace is structured. More people are now able to do some or all of their work at home, but at same time, lines between the workplace and private life are becoming blurred. Many theories of crime e. g. , anomie theory, relative deprivation theory, social disorganization theory assume there is a relationship between unemployment and crime. Researchers have found weak or even negative relationship between these two factors.
