CRIM 012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fatalism, Differential Association, Ritualism In The Church Of England
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Social groups, institutions, the arrangements of society, and social roles all provide the proper focus for criminological study. Group dynamics, group organization, and subgroup relationships form the causal nexus out of which crime develops. The structure of society and its relative degree of organization and disorganization are important factors contributing to criminal behavior. Specific behavior or a given individual cannot be predicted but statistical estimates of group characteristics and the probability that a member of a given group will engage in a specific type of crime are possible. Crime results from an individual"s location (geographic, class, etc. ) within the structure of society: poverty and social disorganization, alienation and personal frustration, differential opportunities, deviant subcultures. High poverty, high unemployment, high infant mortality rates, and higher levels of crime. Number of deaths of infants under one per per 1,000 live births. Lowest to highest infant mortality rates: japan, czech republic, belarus, cuba, us, croatia, burma,
