CRIM 300W Lecture Notes - Social Disorganization Theory, West Vancouver, Urban Sprawl
21 Nov 2013
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The chicago school and culture/sub-cultural theories of crime. Known as: ecological perspective, theory of social disorganization. Valid and generalizable groups of theories: many propositions can be applied to cities around the world. Cities with significant amounts of social disorganization. Epitome of the scientific method: used theory development. Strived for balance between theory testing and analysis. Up until chicago school, past research has small samples, really no theory. No formal social agencies to deal with social problems: no social workers, garbage collectors, police officers. Communities solved their own problems: no reliance on government. Saw an influx of all sorts of immigrants: multitude of new cultures coming in very quickly, those groups came together and formed their own rules, cultures, everyone took care of their on problem. 70% of chicago citizens at that time were foreign born: citizens had to organize themselves, many didn"t speak similar language(s) Chaos in the city: complete breakdown of control, violence/serious crime common, youth gangs became common.
