AUSOC 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Broken Windows Theory, Social Control Theory, Social Disorganization Theory
1 Oct 2018
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Social control theory: things in and outside of you that control your behaviour. First real theory that proposed studying why people do good things and don"t do crime. Wants to study and understand why people conform. Once you figure out why people don"t do crime and apply that to the criminals. Social control focuses on protective factors, not risk factors. People do crime because they don"t have an education, don"t have a job, are addicted to drugs. Things that deter people from becoming criminal. Assume that people are neither good nor evil. But that we all have the capacity to do wrong and to do crime. Crime might be as much rooted in time and place (geography) as much as it is rooted in the individual. Chicago neighbourhoods highest crime rate in city centre and rates generally declined as one moved outward. Thought most crime is rooted in disorganization.
