CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Polish Peasant In Europe And America, Social Disorganization Theory, American Sociological Association
17 Oct 2017
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Located the source of crime within the individual: early theory looked to: the soul, the body big chin etc, the mind mental disease, the genes criminal or evil genes. Did not really look at influence of social environment. Social context of the chicago school: cities grew at rapid rate during later half of 1800s, 1790-1890: urban population increased 139 times, chicago: 4,100 residents in 1833; one million in 1890; two million in 1910. Industrial jobs, rapid growth: city grew through successive waves of immigrants, also, grew through displaced farm workers & blacks moving from rural south. Moving north to get better life. struggling to survive criminogenic: laborers putting in 12 hour days, 6 days a week, low wages, living in slums. > conservative : work harder to get better point: believed that the government could be trusted to carry it out. The ecological school : chicago school also referred to as the ecological school, because of its.
