CC100 Final: Criminology Final PDF
Document Summary
Sociology examines crime as an interaction with social forces patterns of crime within social structure,ecological distribution of crime, effects of changing cultural norms, social institutions, and technology, effect of socialization in family and with peers. Crime is normal just not social norm unequal distribution of wealth, power, and prestige social class similar wealth, values, lifestyle and attitudes . upper, middle, lower(poor families) Economic structure and crime: social strati cation reduced poverty among the elderly access to healthcare, etc more poverty among full time workers 16 percent of children live in poverty. Lower class: problems of housing, lack of healthcare, family breakups, underemployment high levels of dropping out, teenage pregnancy. Immigrants and racial and ethnic minorities are more likely to be poor, more likely to be victims apathy, cynicism, mistrust of social institutions, cause and effect of poverty, transmitted. Culture of poverty oscar lewis from generation to generation, self defeating .
