CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Disorganization Theory, Class Conflict, Anomie
17 Feb 2016
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Examine interrelationships between: social structures, social processes, and have impacts on: social life. Crime is the result of an individual"s location within the structure of society (macro focus) Crime is the end product of carious social processes, especially inappropriate socialization and social learning. Crime is the end product of class struggle. A lower class phenomenon (criminality of upper classes is discounted as less serious, less frequent, and less dangerous) The result of socio-economic disparity/disadvantage which leads to: lack of adequate education, unfair life experiences, lack of future responsibility. Crime as a theoretical construct (dis)agreement: which acts are criminal : prohibition based in law, moral values, social conventions, behavioural consequences. 1) explains crime by references to the economic and social arrangements of society. 2) emphasizes relationships amongst the social institutions. 3) describes the types of behaviour that tend to characterize groups of people rather than individuals.
