CRM 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Positivism, Social Disorganization Theory, Social Ecology

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 2301
• Professor: Christine Gervais

Document Summary

Sociological positivism (focusing on the outside the person) (economic and geographical factors, larger scale: sociological factors, social environment shapes human behaviour, different ways of de ning soc env. Ecology= interrelation between organisms and their natural environment. (applied to human behaviour to understand the connection between humans and their environment) humans. &their community = social ecology, social ecology= human geography, drawing on a variety of concepts to have a more complete understanding. Crime has for the majority of the time displays a certain geographical aspect, certain neighbourhoods are more inclined to commit crime than others. 1. uneven geographical distribution: criminogenic areas(innr city, spatial variation in crime rates (industrialized societies/trans-global, social disorganization ( an example of ecological theory, urban vs rural. More so with their environments less on person, (particular situations/areas are abnormal) Ethnography: method of research used by the chicago school theorists, branch of anthropology, scienti c description of human societies, eld research(grounded level, qualitative.