SOC205H5 Lecture Notes - White-Collar Crime, Social Disorganization Theory, Differential Association
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Physical attributions effect how people perceive one to be a criminal or not, who is dangerous or not. The good guys in media are played by good-looking attractive individuals. Black men are not portrayed positively in media. History repeat: genocide, hate crime against people who are considered biologically inferior. Involuntary sterilization of 1000"s of people, they were considered barbaric. Poor and non-white individuals are considered inferior, and promote white dominance. Most biological research is done on lower class individuals, ignoring white collar crime. What social processes impact criminal and lead to criminal behaviour: social processes focus on interactions of individuals, social structure look at organization of society, ^ social learning theories. Social disorganization theory: shaw and mackay, burgess"s concentric zone theory. Even today it is one of the main producers of analysis"s impacting neighbourhoods. Wanted to explain transition to urbanization, people moving from rural areas to the city. In chicago went from 2000 to 2 million people.
