CRMN 3850U Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Disorganization Theory, The Neighbourhood, Telling Stories
8 Mar 2020
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Environmental and situational theories emphasize that context matters (not just the. These perspectives built on early chicago school perspectives, including work on social individual) disorganization theory. Level of analysis is a useful tool for comparing theories. Example: someone"s individual characteristics that lead to their tendency to. Example: agnew"s general strain theory (he was interested in negative emotions); gottfredshon and hirschi"s general theory of crime (self-control); Maruna"s self narrative (telling stories about one"s self) Example: how are gangs enforced at the social level. Example: anderson"s code of the streets (neighbourhoods and families) Example: comparing national differences in crime rates. Environmental and situational theories are primarily aimed at the meso-level - the institutional, contextual, or situational context. Situations/contexts can lead to crime independently of a person"s individual traits are characteristics. Aimed at explaining why some neighbourhoods or social environments are more prone. One of the things that can predict their higher rates of crime is more opportunity.
