CRIM 2311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Juvenile Delinquency, Social Disorganization Theory, Individualism
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The chicago school of criminology: social context. During the latter half of the 1800s, cities grew at a rapid pace along with industrialization. 4,100 residents in 1833 to over 2 million in 1910. Waves of immigrants, displaced farmworkers, and african americans fleeing the rural south. Pitiful wages, 12 hour days in dangerous factories. Referred to as the jungle by upton sinclair. Criminologists during the 1920s and 1930s saw that these changes created bulging populations and slum areas. They believe that growing up in the city, particularly in the slums, made a difference in people"s lives. University of chicago is the nation"s oldest sociology program 1892. Rejected the social darwinists" logic that the poor, and the criminals among them, were biologically inferior- fallen to society"s bottom because they were of (cid:440)lesser genetic stock(cid:441) They believed the poor were not born into lives of crime, but pushed there by their environment.
