Sociology 2266A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Social Disorganization Theory, Criminal Record, Social Conflict
8 Jan 2020
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Looks at socioeconomic status such as poverty, social disorganization, differential opportunities as how they can lead to crime. Larger social forces that impact an individual to commit crime. Social process perspective: learning to be criminal. Social conflict: looks at conflict between classes, who defines the laws and whos interests are served by those laws. Social structural theories suggest that peoples places in the socioeconomic structure influence their chances of becoming criminal. Strain: look at how individual experiences within a social structure (poverty) causes strain. The idea that within society those at the bottom of socio economic spectrum have their own unique subculture that makes them more likely to commit crime. Crime rate rose during the 1960"s and 1970"s. Unemployment rate means parents are home, more supervision for children. Those are more likely to be unemployed at the time of incarceration. There are fewer costs in committing crime when you don"t have a job.
