CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Urban Renewal, Social Disorganization Theory, Crime Survey For England And Wales

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 104
• Professor: Barry Cartwright

Document Summary

Sometimes referred to as environmental criminology, ecological criminology, or social criminology. Foundation for community structure and crime: testing social-disorganization theory , and. Social disorganization theorists and researchers are interested in the spatial distribution of crime. Notion that distribution of crime is not random, it is patterned. Social problems like unemployment, poverty and run-down housing are highly correlated with crime. Crime is not the only social problem in crime-ridden areas. Usually have unemployment, mental illness, drug addiction, alcoholism. Usually characterized by low rates of crime. Absence of social problems found in socially disorganized areas. City of chicago grew from 4,000 residents in 1833 to 2,000,000 residents in 1910, principally through immigration. Led to rapid social changes associated with urbanization, immigration, and industrialization. The chicago school was first sociology department in the united states (1892) Often called the ecological school because various of its core members compared growth of. Chicago to the natural ecological process of competition.